An EU trade policy fit for the future
Photo by Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash It is time to move on from a worn-out, broken model of trade policy and create a new approach to trade that is fit for the future. At present, trade rules tend to…
EU exits the ECT
Today the EU took the final decision to exit the climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), with a final green light from the Council. This is a massive victory for activists across Europe who have been calling for this to happen…
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…
European Parliament votes to exit climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty
Today the European Union took a step closer to exiting the high risk Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), when the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to leave the treaty. This little known and outdated treaty is being used by the fossil fuel…
100 organizations from around the world call on Ecuador to defend its sovereignty against ISDS!
Ecuador must defend its right to say NO to international investment tribunals and to the privileges afforded to foreign investors The undersigned organizations strongly encourage the people of Ecuador to vote NO to arbitration on April 21st! Investor-State dispute settlement…
100+ Organisations Call on MEPs to vote against EU-Chile Deal
In January 2024, Members of the European Parliament will have to decide whether to approve an exploitative green-washed trade agreement with Chile. The agreement, which has been in place since 2003, is to be expanded, and the addition of a…
Solidarity with Mercosur Allies as President Milei Inaugurated in Argentina
As the self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist, Javier Milei is sworn in as President of Argentina, who wants to cut social spending and labour rights and sign the EU-Mercosur trade agreement as soon as possible, movements and organizations from Europe express their solidarity…
Stop the EU New Zealand Trade Deal!
Fifty civil society organizations call on the European Parliament not to ratify the trade agreement with New Zealand. The European Parliament must decide in the coming months whether to approve the free trade agreement between the EU and New Zealand.…
New Legal Analysis: EU States remaining in ECT risk financial liability for EU decisions
The European Trade Justice Coalition, along with allies, has commissioned a new legal study on the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT): Photo by Antonio Feregrino on Unsplash The paper looks at the question of what will happen to EU Member States…
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…