In an open letter Ska and 87 other Members of the European Parliament expressed their support of the Wallonians in their denial towards CETA.
You can find the letter here in english and french
What is at stake in CETA goes beyond a simple technical agreement on liberalisation of goods and services: it is about our social and environmental norms, the regulatory...
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In Brussels EU- representatives, mayors f. e. from Vienna, Barcelona and Grenoble, representatives from Canada also as local politcians from all over Europe meeting on a citizens-summit signed together a declaration on the contested free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union.
The declaration demands the European Commission to Stop CETA and TTIP. They do...
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CETA: what next?
The Commission has decided that the free trade agreement with Canada, CETA, is a “mixed” agreement and as such should be ratified in all Member States of the European Union. That is largely down to the efforts of civil society, which for years has been pressurising the EU to ensure that full and proper processes...
morePlenary Speech
Strasbourg, 5 July 2016
We want a trade policy for the poor; a trade policy that fights inequality and reduces poverty; a trade policy that shapes Globalisation. But the Commission is doing the opposite: They threaten countries that do not cooperate in deporting migrants or do not close their borders with trade sanction. This is the wrong direction!...
moreA group of five EU member states has presented a non-paper proposing to replace individual countries’ bilateral investment protection treaties with a new EU agreement. The proposal by the five countries - Austria, Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands - comes as the EU is continuing to struggle with opposition to controversial proposals for private tribunals on...
moreCommenting on the leaked papers from the EU-US TTIP negotiations, which NGO Greenpeace has today made public, Green trade spokesperson Ska Keller said:
"The European Commission has previously tried to mollify those who raised concerns about TTIP but it needs to stop patronising the legitimate and growing public opposition to an EU-US deal. Now it becomes apparent that...
moreAfter six years from the murder of Jyri Jaakkola and Bety Cariño in Oaxaca, Mexico is still surrounded by total impunity.On 27 April, 2010 the two human rights observers, Jyri from Finland and Bety from Mexico, participated in a humanitarian caravan on its way to the autonomous indigenous community of San Juan Copala, when armed gunmen of the paramilitary group Ubisort...
moreDear President Obama,
The United States and the European Union will soon commence the 13th round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Your visit to Hannover's Industrial Fair in Germany has been interpreted as an effort to speed up talks to reach an agreement by the end of the year.We believe this is a mistake. So as you embark...
morePress Release - Brussels, 29 February
The European Commission today published its final proposals on an EU-Canada free trade agreement (CETA). Concerning the controversial investor-state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS), the relevant chapter of the European Commission’s CETA proposal mirrors the proposals on ISDS made for the draft EU-US trade deal, TTIP....
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12th round of talks on the transatlantic free trade agreement with the USA, TTIP
The 12th round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, took place from 22 to 26 February. Two further rounds of talks will take place before the summer. In the meantime individual points will be dealt with in intersessional discussions. For example,...
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