The EU’s biggest farm group Copa Cogeca is getting nervous about the prospects of key proposed EU trade agreements: CETA, TTIP and the EU-Japan FTA. “We need to find more new export outlets so that we are not totally dependent on the Chinese market”, Martin Merrild, the president of Copa …
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Photo of the day
Sign left by the roadside by anti trade agreement demonstrators in Brussels on 20 September 2016. Photo taken on Avenue de la Loi, Brussels (21/09/2016).
Business group anticipates TTIP negotiation halt in 2017
EU leaders are getting prepared for a halt to TTIP negotiations in 2017.
Head of German Catholic Church says TTIP can contribute to fairer world economic order
He is Catholic, he is German, and his family name is Marx. You’d think he is against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership currently under negotiation between the EU and the United States. But in fact he approves of TTIP. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German Bishop’s Conference, and also …
Germany: how minority groups have come to dominate the public debate on TTIP
Origin of the graph: Matthias Bauer, ECIPE. Has Germany’s public debate on TTIP been hijacked by two minority political parties? At least some evidence is now emerging that the discussion on the transatlantic treaty has been distorted by a highly active network of ‘civil society’ groups gravitating around the …
In brief: Glimpses of TTIP’s institutional setup
TTIP’s institutional setup is shaping up to become quite inclusive. Too much perhaps? The ten ‘textual proposals’ the EU Commission tabled to the United States Trade Representative during the fourtenth round of negotiations in July are gradually being unplucked and analysed by experts. Elaine Fahey is one of those geeky law …
In brief: TTIP – Juncker pledges negotiation continuation – France tones down calls for suspension
EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the Commission intended to continue negotiating the transatlantic trade agreement TTIP despite calls from some EU member states to halt the talks. Washington and some capitals in the EU hope to finalise the three year old talks by the end of the year. …
MEP Reding follows French government in calls for TTIP talk suspension
Generally reactions to German chancellor Sigmar Gabriel’s late August statements that TTIP negotiations have failed and to France’s Matthias Fekl’s wish to see the EU walk away from the negotiation table have not been very well received. At the EU Parliament, France has found at least one fan, though, under the …
Analysis: TTIP talks won’t stop – but EU political forces are aligning ahead of 2016 deadline
What is going on? This the most frequent question one reads and hears after German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel stated that TTIP negotiations had in effect failed, and after on Tuesday (30 August) French secretary of state in charge of trade Matthias Fekl announced that he wanted to see the TTIP negotiations …
“Full stop” to TTIP talks – translation and transcript of Matthias Fekl interview
After Sigmar Gabriel’s shock statements about the state of the TTIP negotiations, France has weighed in with its Secretary of State’s announcement this morning (30 August 2016) on French television that Paris wants a full halt to the talks. Full details – an nuances – in the full English translation of the interview …
