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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), sometimes known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), is currently ...

The EU Ombudsman is running a consultation on how to improve the transparency of the TTIP negotiations.  This shouldn't be hard, ...

When the European Commission was laying the foundations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP, also known as T...

Here on Techdirt, we've been writing about the dangers of corporate sovereignty for a while. In recent months, more and more peopl...

Techdirt has already examined the issue of corporate sovereignty many times over the past year, as it has emerged as one of the most pro...

A few months ago, we quoted the EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht , who is responsible for handling the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations on the...

In my last TTIP update , I wrote about a fascinating document that revealed the European Commission's PR strategy for handling TAFTA /...

At the start of 2012 I began a series of posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - ACTA. These took the form of updates on how...

After lurking in the shadows for a few months, the mega transatlantic trade deal TAFTA/TTIP is starting to hit the mainstream media. Her...

Techdirt has been writing about corporate sovereignty (also known as investor-state dispute settlement -- ISDS) for a year now. Back in ...

There's no shortage of critics of massive trade agreements like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP, but today saw strong condemnation from a very un...

Insofar as we know what's in them, both TPP and TAFTA/TTIP appear to have deep, thorough-going problems, which are unlikely to be ad...

One of the key problems with TAFTA/TTIP is the same one that plagued ACTA and has recently been highlighted with TPP : the complete lac...

Despite the growing evidence that corporate sovereignty clauses in international treaties pose considerable risks to nations that sign...

In my previous TTIP update , I reported on an extremely important leak about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), which is the...

Today's update is a little odd, since it's not actually about TAFTA /TTIP, at least not directly. Although the second round is t...

One of the key issues during the ACTA negotiations was transparency - or rather the lack of it. Despite a few...

One of the difficulties of making people aware of the huge impact that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses in TPP and TAFT...

The first six months of 2012 saw Europeans taking to the streets in order to kill off ACTA in the European Union. Against all the odds, ...

Readers with long memories may recall in the dim and distant past that at one time "Get the Facts" was a favourite war-cry of Mic...