North-South

August 2009

Traidcraft

Negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and India could pose serious threats to India’s development and to efforts to redress poverty and inequality.

A partnership among equals?

April 2009

TNI

EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign

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In May 2007, the European Union launched its New Partnership for the 21st Century with Asia. The initiative consisted of simultaneous negotiations for free trade agreements with India, Korea and ASEAN.

Examining the EU - ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

March 2009

TNI

EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign

This is an introduction to A partnership among equals?

No FTA without parliamentary approval

March 2009

TNI

Forum on FTAs action alert

In June 2007, the European Union (EU) and the Government of India started negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). This new generation FTA covers many areas other than trade in goods viz. trade in services, investment, intellectual property rights, competition policy, government procurement etc...

Vote on Draft Report "EU-India Free Trade Agreement"

February 2009

TNI

To:
- Members of the committee on International Trade (INTA)
Cc:
- Members of the Committee on Development (DEVE)
- Members of the delegation for relations with India (D-IN)

Dear MEP,

Re: Vote on Draft Report "EU-India Free Trade...

How to oppose liberalisation of financial services

February 2009

Myriam vander Stichele

Myriam Vander Stichele

Three fact sheets on how despite talk of regulations of financial services in the North, the WTO and regional Free Trade agreements continue to impose financial liberalisation on the south.

Obama's agenda for change and the 2009 Summit of the Americas

November 2008

TNI

Rick Arnold and Manuel Pérez-Rocha

Barack Obama's electoral victory represents hope for change in the US relations with Latin America, but he will have to work against time to showcase the new policy direction at the Fifth Summit of the Americas, to be held in Trinidad and Tobago in April next year, write Rick Arnold and Manuel...

The EU-India-FTA: development and growth for each and everybody?

November 2008

TNI

Barbara Meincke

Far-reaching tariff elimination and liberalization of government procurement can have negative effects on the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Indian society and hamper rather than foster human development.

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Asia & the US in the 21st Century

November 2008

Walden Bello

(An earlier version of this commentary was delivered as the Ted Wheelwright Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on Sept. 1, 2008.)

Despite the glitter that surrounded the Olympics in Beijing, the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and the Republican National Convention in...

Protest letter to the chair of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

October 2008

TNI

This letter was delivered by hand to Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank and the Acting Secretary General of International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as Telefonica, Telecom Italia, and ETI.
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