Trade

How is big business using the EU's trade and investment agreements to sideline people, planet and democracy?

Dirty hands on dirty deals

21.10.2015

What do “COP21” and the ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, have in common?

VW: "Tested Once, Approved Everywhere"

14.10.2015

Despite the scandal surrounding Volkswagen’s rigged pollution measuring equipment and the flawed EU car test regime, the proposed EU-US trade deal (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP) is set to include rules on tests that could make a solution more difficult. EU negotiators are even moving in tandem with the very car industry that just lost all credibility.

Regulatory cooperation

TTIP: A box of tricks for corporate climate criminals

13.10.2015

A new briefing in English (below) by AITEC and CEO explains why TTIP, and especially regulatory cooperation, could put a stranglehold on our ability to create the energy transition required to tackle climate change.

EU trade deals

Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA

12.10.2015

New report exposes systemic collusion between big business and EU trade negotiators in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector through CETA and TTIP, which could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water, health, and energy.

Don't believe the hype - TTIP is not for small companies

17.08.2015

Publicly, business lobby groups are heavily pushing the idea that TTIP will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But behind closed doors they admit the reality: that small companies will “face increased competition” and that “benefits remain hypothetical”.

EU trade deals

Law Firms: the most underrated lobbyists

15.07.2015

Law firms and their stake in TTIP

Revolving doors

The revolving door: greasing the wheels of the TTIP lobby

15.07.2015

The prospective EU-US trade deal could be the world's biggest such treaty. The revolving door between public and private sectors is helping to grease the wheels of the TTIP corporate lobby.

EU trade deals

TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise

14.07.2015

Which businesses are pushing most for the proposed EU-US trade deal TTIP? Who’s influencing EU negotiators? Corporate Europe Observatory’s new info-graphics reveal the corporate lobby behind the TTIP talks.

TTIP: released emails show biotech, seeds on the trade talks table

02.07.2015

An often asked question is whether TTIP will weaken Europe's rules over genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Meanwhile, the biotech industry is pushing for the products of the 'next generation' biotech crops to escape the EU's legislation on GMOs and therefore to go unregulated. Is there a link between this new push, and TTIP? Emails obtained via a Freedom of Information request show this might indeed be the case.

EU trade deals

The strange case of the shy lobbyists: why no-one will admit to lobbying for TTIP

08.05.2015

CEO undertook a survey to try and establish which law firms and lobby consultancies were willing to be transparent about their lobbying on TTIP.

Regulatory cooperation

Recipe for disaster: a pro-business Scrutiny Board to prevent laws that hurt corporate profit

07.05.2015

The European Commission’s shocking leaked proposal for ”better regulation” would create pro-business bureaucratic mechanisms to prevent new laws - from regulating chemicals to preventing climate change - that could hurt the bottom line of corporations. Add TTIP and its 'regulatory co-operation' and US companies get in on the act too, with extra privileges.

Brexit

Cameron and the European Commission: doing the business of business

06.05.2015

As the UK goes to the polls, CEO reflects upon the similarities between the UK and EU's 'better regulation' agendas.

Trade

Dirty hands on dirty deals

VW: "Tested Once, Approved Everywhere"

TTIP: A box of tricks for corporate climate criminals

Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA

Don't believe the hype - TTIP is not for small companies

Law Firms: the most underrated lobbyists

The revolving door: greasing the wheels of the TTIP lobby

TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise

TTIP: released emails show biotech, seeds on the trade talks table

The strange case of the shy lobbyists: why no-one will admit to lobbying for TTIP

Recipe for disaster: a pro-business Scrutiny Board to prevent laws that hurt corporate profit

Cameron and the European Commission: doing the business of business

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