Alternative Investment Model

We believe an alternative European trade and investment model should:

We believe an alternative European trade and investment model should:

    • meet the universal and inalienable human rights of all people, 
    • guarantee decent work, 
    • recognize the importance of reproductive care, community and informal work, 
    • ensure a transition to a low-carbon economy, 
    • achieve meaningful democratisation at all levels of decision-making, 
    • challenge structural power relations between countries, regions, men and women, classes, castes and ethnic groups, 
    • fight poverty and establish new and equitable solidarity relations with people in other regions, 
    • increase the level of economic, social and environmental well-being globally.

Beginners Guide to Trade

February 2013
Cecilia Olivet
Pietje Vervest
et al.

This beginners' guide provides a critical perspective on EU’s trade and investment policies and the business interests they serve. TNI worked on the guide with a Europe-wide network of trade activists, belonging to the Seattle to Brussels network.