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Alternative Regionalisms

TNI’s Alternative Regionalisms Programme focuses on the European Union's role on the critical issues of Trade, Investment and Corporations. The European Union and European corporations have been the main proponents of a plethora of free trade and investment agreements, through a strategy called “Global Europe.” TNI’s Alternative Regionalisms Programme plays a critical bridging role between social organisations in the South and North challenging these agreements and putting forward alternatives.

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  • The Davos Class

    The Davos class run our major institutions, know exactly what they want, and are well organized, but they have weaknesses too. For they are wedded to an ideology that isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this.

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  • Globalising Hunger

    The publication analyses the impacts of the scramble for the cheapest raw materials, the exports of cereals, dairy and poultry products, as well as the effects of the growing demand for animal feed, by far the most important agricultural commodity imported into the European Union.

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  • The Dark Side of Investment Agreements

    Signing international investment treaties, in the hope of attracting foreign investments, has been a central strategy for governments looking to improve economic development. The less known side of this story is that by signing investment treaties, governments are giving away the sovereign right to regulate in the interest of people and the environment. They also expose themselves to the risk of spending millions in law suits that could have been used to serve public needs. It’s time that the dark side of investment is put under the spotlight.

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  • Week of Action on Investment

    In November 2011, Brussels was the stage for a 'Week of Action' which looked to expose the threat of Bilateral Investment Treaties to democratic governance and public interest and to advocate for an Alternative Investment Regime. 

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  • The implications of international investment treaties

    Gus Van Harten discusses specific cases of investor-to-state arbitration to highlight what are the key problems with international investment treaties. How developing countries are being impacted by investment disputes and what the role is of lawyers and experts in promoting a growing international arbitration industry.

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Members of Alternative Regionalisms

Brid Brennan
Cecilia Olivet
Gonzalo Berrón
Pietje Vervest

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The War on Colombia’s Poor
Ross Eventon
 January 2012

The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

Debating Europe "For a just EU investment policy"
December 2011
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Watch the heated debate among representatives from the European Commission, the Belgium government and civil society on the issue of EU Investment policy.

The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing
Edgardo Lander
 December 2011
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The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP's report "Towards a Green Economy" is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.

Does the EU-Malaysia FTA undermine government policy space to regulate?
November 2011

Charles Santiago, MP from Malaysia, discusses the dangers of EU-Malaysia FTA, particularly due to the inclusion of an investment protection chapter. 

Ireland’s Debt Crisis: Roots and Reactions
Andy Storey November 2011

The Celtic Tiger might just find its strength and appetite for action in the growth of left leaning electorates and local citizens initiatives. The tailspin of economy caused by austerity policies should be countered by a transparent debt audit.

Global Investment Rules: Threat to Democracy and the Environment
November 2011
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Around the world, citizens have been mobilizing to defend their environment and economic sovereignty from transnational corporations, but there is another threat lurking in the shadows that can ride roughshod over our rights. A video of the Network for Justice in Global Investment in collaboration with the Transnational Institute.

Which way for the European economy?
TNI
 November 2011

The ‘Six Pack’ has been billed by EU leaders as the solution to the sovereign debt crisis, but huge opposition from the European public, as well as an increasing number of critical economists, journalists and academics, raises serious questions about the legitimacy of their claims.

EU Economic Governance – For People or for the Banks?
Alternative Regionalisms
 November 2011

Did fiscal irresponsibility cause the EU crisis? Are European institutions democratically accountable? Is the European Commission politically neutral? Check out TNI's debates with a representative of the European Commission.

 
Occupy Wall Street: New politics and new milestones
Phyllis Bennis
 November 2011

The occupy movement has achieved an incredible and much-needed shake-up of a long-standing political stasis in the US and elsewhere, but it is crucial now to highlight the connection between failed foreign policy, bloated military spending and illegal wars, and the economic crisis at home.

Occupy Wall Street: Origins & Prospects
Tom Reifer
 October 2011

The ancient discussion about the purposes of wealth and the conflict between oligarchy – rule of the rich – and democracy – the rule of the demos/the people comes to the fore once again with the Occupy protests.

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