02 January 2016

TTIP Update LI

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It's been a couple of months since my last TTIP update .  That hiatus reflectes the talks themselves, which feel strangely suspended.  ...

TTIP Update L

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In the last TTIP update I wrote about two important leaks, both dealing with regulatory matters.  One of those came from the Greens MEP ...

TTIP Update XLIX

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As is widely appreciated by now, TTIP is about regulatory harmonisation rather than about lowering tariffs, since the latter are already ex...

TTIP Update XLVIII

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As I've noted many times before, the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism has long been the most contentious aspect of TT...

TTIP Update XLVII

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As long-suffering readers of this column wil have noticed, the dominant theme of the discussions around TTIP so far has been the investor-s...

TTIP Update XLVI

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Not much has been happening on the TTIP front during the holiday break, but there's one extremely important report that came out a litt...

TTIP Update XLV

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The TTIP negotiations are in trouble.  After 18 months of talks, the EU and US have precious little to show.  And external factors such as ...

TTIP Update XLIV

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The TTIP negotiations have started in earnest - before, meetings were largely preliminary, aimed at establishing the general positions of b...

TTIP Update XLIII

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On Monday, I attended an interesting meeting at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, in Berlin, with the intriguing title of " re:negotiate (tt...

TTIP Update XLII

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The problems of TTIP are so many - total lack of meaningful transparency, the unnecessary inclusion of an ISDS chapter, the threat to Europ...

TTIP Update XLI

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In my last update , I noted that the highly-contested investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) chapter remains the centre of atten...