Learning session: green tech and trade rules
The green transition urgently needs a rollout and sharing of climate technologies - which is also a huge economic opportunity. Yet we see big business and powerful economies hoarding the licences and the instruction manuals. This forces the global South…
Learning sessions
The European Trade Justice Coalition held a series of three learning sessions about issues on the cutting edge of trade policy and the way it impacts people and planet. From raw materials to green industrial development? Resource-rich countries in the…
Ask your MEP candidates to support a just EU trade policy
Demand trade justice politics from your candidates in the 2024 European Parliament elections! European trade and investment agreements are still not in line with EU´s climate and sustainable development ambitions - in fact they are in stark contradiction. We, as…
Trade Union Speaker Tour and map of STOP EU-Mercosur Activities
The proposed EU-Mercosur trade deal has been widely criticized over its impact on the environment – but that’s not the only problem with it. The deal, between the European Union and the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) also…
Civil society actions around the EU-CELAC summit, 17th and 18th of July – Conference, Protest, Strategy Meeting
During the EU-CELAC summit in Brussels in the 17th and 18th of July, the trade justice movement from Europe and Latin America came together. In parallel to the official summit between heads of the state from Latin America, the Caribbean…
Conference – A new EU-Latin America trade relationship for the 21st Century
+++Español abajo/Português abaixo+++ A new EU-Latin America trade relationship for the 21st Century Conference in the European Parliament parallel to the EU-CELAC summit Date: 17 July 2023 Where: in the European Parliament with hybrid participation - SPAAK 1A2, Rue Wiertz…
Corporate agenda trumps peoples’ rights in EU-Philippines trade talks
Since the venue of EU-PH FTA negotiation was kept secret, activists staged a mocked protest at premises FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 May 2016 Corporate agenda trumps peoples' rights in EU-Philippines trade talks A secret negotiation for a EU-Philippines FTA is…
ISDS: Courting foreign investors
Why the Commission’s proposal for an “Investment Court System” still fails to address the key problems of foreign investors’ privileges Analysis by the Seattle to Brussels Network Download the PDF-Version Summary The European Commission unveiled a draft text for a…
A call to action on CETA
This call to action was written by several organisations involved in European campaign against TTIP and CETA, following the July 2015 civil society strategy meeting. Download this call to action as PDF TTIP could hit you sooner than you think…
Investor-state dispute resolution: Will the EU-US trade deal encourage attacks on the public interest?
Public Event – Brussels, 4 June 2013 Introduction by Pia Eberhardt (audio) Undermining democracy – Why EU and US attempts to negotiate investment treaties pose a threat to the public interest – Thea Lee, Deputy Chief of Staff, US trade…
BITs that bite into budgets: will the EP let private lawyers decide?
Public discussion of civil society with MEPs, Council & Commission Tuesday, February 26th 2013, – Résidence Palace – International Press Centre, Brussels – The European Union has acquired exclusive competence to negotiate international investment agreements such as Bilateral Investment Treaties…