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24 November 2013
ISDS: ACTA by the Back Door?
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As I noted in my last TTIP update , things are beginning to get moving again on this front. One reflection of the growing interesting in...
TTIP Update III
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It's been fairly quiet on the TAFTA /TTIP front recently. That's largely because Europe shuts down for its summer hols during A...
US Free Trade Agreements Are Bad Not Just For The Economy, But For The Environment, Too
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A couple of months ago, we reported on some interesting research into the reality of US trade agreements, in contrast to the rosy pictu...
23 November 2013
UK Government Study Tries To Gloss Over TAFTA/TTIP's Problems With Impossibly Precise Figures
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As Europe gets back down to business after its traditional summer break, the second round of the negotiations for the proposed TAFTA/TTIP ...
27 October 2013
TPP Negotiations Deprive New Zealanders Of Promised Copyright Consultation -- For Secret Reasons
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One of the myths perpetuated by governments taking part in major international treaty negotiations like ACTA, TPP and TAFTA/TTIP is that ...
26 October 2013
Trade Agreements With Mexico And South Korea Turned Out To Be Disasters For US: So Why Pursue TPP And TAFTA/TTIP?
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Two massive trade agreements currently being negotiated -- TPP and TAFTA/TTIP -- could potentially affect most people on this planet, e...
TTIP Update I
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At the start of this year I flagged up the likelihood that hugely important trade negotations between the EU and US would start in due ...
Urgent: Please Contact MEPs Now for Spying/TAFTA Vote
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As you will have noticed, European politicians have suddenly become rather interested in the revelations about NSA spying now that it seem...
Leaked EU Policy Papers Show TAFTA/TTIP's Huge Challenges -- And Some Subtle Signals
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After last Wednesday's debate , the European Parliament passed a resolution on the subject of NSA surveillance , which included the f...
Controversial EU Data Protection Regulation May Be Negotiated In Secret In Breach Of Parliamentary Process
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Today, the European Parliament held a three-hour long debate on PRISM, Tempora and what the EU response should be. Many wanted TAFTA/TTI...
19 September 2013
People Begin To Wake Up To Massive Dangers Of Investor-State Dispute Resolution
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Techdirt has been writing about investor-state dispute resolution (ISDR) mechanisms in international trade treaties like TPP and TAFTA/...
EU Mandate For TAFTA Leaked: Includes Investor-State Dispute Resolution For Intellectual Monopolies
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One of the concerns about TAFTA/TTIP is that it would repeat the mistakes of ACTA and SOPA as far as intellectual monopolies were concer...
18 September 2013
US-EU Trade Deal In Trouble Before It Even Starts?
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For the last few months, Techdirt has been following the surprisingly rapid embrace on both sides of the Atlantic of the proposed transa...
EU Commission Sued For Refusing To Reveal Trade Agreement Documents They Shared With Lobbyists
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A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the lack of transparency when international agreements and treaties are being drawn up. That'...
28 July 2013
TTIP's "Science-based" Assault on Democracy Begins
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Last month I predicted that one of the main tropes that would be used in the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations would by that of "science-based&...
21 July 2013
Why has Monsanto "Quit" Europe? The Answer is ISDS in TAFTA/TTIP
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The battle to bring GM food to Europe has been fiercely fought for years. Most assumed it would be continue to rage for many more. Which m...
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20 July 2013
What New-Style Trade Agreements Are Really About (Hint: It's Not Trade)
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Given the massive impact that new-style trade agreements like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP are likely to have on the lives of hundreds of millio...
US Demands Transparency Everywhere -- But Only From Everyone Else
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Techdirt has written about the Special 301 report many times, but that's not the only US government publication putting other countr...
Not Learning From ACTA: IPR Protection And Enforcement Seen As 'Less Difficult Issue' For TAFTA/TTIP
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Despite increasing calls for the imminent TAFTA/TTIP trade negotiations to be conducted as openly as possible, it seems likely that, a...
Please Write to MEPs *Now* about TAFTA/TTIP
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Sorry to trouble you again this week, but there's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TA...
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