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TTIP is dying : According to the research, "In the United States [today], opinion is split, with 15 percent in favour [of TTIP] and...

Last week, the UK government published a revised Investigatory Powers Bill, aka the Snooper's Charter.  Surprisingly, it took no notic...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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