11 February 2017

Please Write to Your MEPs About Next Week's Critical - and Final - CETA Vote

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Next Wednesday, the European Parliament will have its final vote on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement , or CETA. If you were h...
11 January 2017

Please Write to MEPs on the ENVI Committee About CETA *Today*

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There's an important vote by MEPs on the ENVI committee tomorrow about CETA, the trade deal between the EU and Canada . Background on w...
04 January 2017

Spare Slots for Regular Freelance Work Soon Available

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I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...
17 December 2016

Please Write to Your MPs Asking Them To Support Fossil Fuel Divestment

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It's is now clear that the incoming Trump government will be the most environment-hostile, and fossil fuel-friendly US administration i...
24 April 2016

TTIP Is Dying; Here's How to Help Finish It Off

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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...
06 March 2016

Please Write To MPs To Call For More Time To Debate Investigatory Powers Bill

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