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Myriam vander Stichele

Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)

Myriam Vander Stichele  has been monitoring international trade negotiations and agreements since 1990, both at a regional and global level. She is an advisor to many NGOs whose indepth research on investment agreements and policies, and private investor strategies has sparked many international campaigns.

With an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge, Myriam's research is particularly focussed on the financial, food and supermarkets sectors, and the corporate strategies and services liberalisation related to these.

WTO; EU Trade & Development Policies; Financial Services Liberalisation; EU/Africa Trade & Development Practices

English; Dutch

Selected publications: 
The deficits of the EU financial reforms
Critical Issues in the Financial Industry

Recent content by Myriam vander Stichele

WTO: Cause not Solution to the Crisis!! (30 Nov 2009)

The financial crisis should be recognized as a very clear example of how the free trade and free market theory has failed, why the WTO should turn around away from this neo-liberal model and allow for all services and trade to be at the service of people and the planet, not of corporate profits.

What is the role of WTO services rules in the context of the current financial crisis? (24 Nov 2009)

The WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (the "GATS")  has very much underpinned expansion without regulation and supervision, so the financial corporations had the guarantee that their expansion would be underpinned. But financial services are not the same as other services – they need special supervisory structures.

The deficits of the EU financial reforms (20 Oct 2009)

Will the financial sector reforms currently proposed at the EU level guarantee financial stability and protect the real economy from financial speculators?

Contradictions at the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis (22 Jun 2009)

The G20's continued push for trade liberalisation contradicts the same countries' assertion that markets, especially the financial sector, need further regulation.

Debating Europe: The Global Crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy (video) (20 Feb 2009)
Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts. Susan George and Myriam Vander Stichele debate MEP Ignasi Guardans and Chief Economist DG Trade, Gaspar Frontini, in TNI's Debating Europe series.
How to oppose liberalisation of financial services (19 Feb 2009)
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.
“Free trade” agreements contribute to financial and other crises (1 Feb 2009)
While the financial crisis and its consequences are spreading around the world and even the most erstwhile ‘free market’ governments are discussing how to re-regulate the financial sector, bilateral and regional ‘free trade’ agreements continue extreme deregulation of the financial industry.
End WTO deregulation of finance (1 Feb 2009)
Since the current financial crisis started, none of the governments, experts or media who have called for new regulations for the financial industry have taken into account rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which actually impose extreme financial service deregulation on many WTO member countries.
Casino Crash: the end of neo-liberalism? (Video) (27 Nov 2008)
Does the greatest financial crisis since the Wall Street crash of 1929 mean that the 'capitalism as we know it' has reached its end? TNI panelists analyse the causes and consequences of the on-going global financial crisis and discuss its profound implications for a changed world order.
How trade, the WTO and the financial crisis reinforce each other (1 Nov 2008)

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