Sentences with phrase «transatlantic trade and investment»

The ongoing debate came to greater prominence during the negotiation of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and US, through a public consultation launched by the EU Commission in 2014.

This is nowhere more manifest than in the heated debates (in Germany and elsewhere) about the EU - Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Similarly, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and EU looks unlikely to reach any sort of agreement, owing to a lack of enthusiasm on the part of primarily France and Germany.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is heavily debated.

Global corporations and Wall Street investors are pushing the Fast Track legislation in order to grease the skids for approval of the Trans - Pacific Partnership with Japan and other Pacific Rim countries and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union.

The leaked position paper reveals that the proposed trade deal - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP - could change U.S. energy policy to allow for increased exports of oil and gas and keep the EU dependent on high levels of fossil fuel imports.

The latest release of lobbying data on the European Commission's Transparency Register has raised concerns that the fossil - fuelled Kochs are trying to influence the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations.

In «Dirty Deals ``, Friends of the Earth Europe and other environmental groups reveal how U.S. negotiators at the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks work to undermine the EU's Fuel Quality Directive and unleash exports of dirty fuels, including tar sands oil, a highly intensive source of greenhouse gas emissions.

«However, a transatlantic trade and investment agreement would have devastating consequences if free trade is pursued at the expense of environmental protection and consumer and worker rights.»

... [In written congressional testimony Froman] explained how he had turned the standards into a point of contention in negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — a major free - trade pact being hammered out between the U.S. and the EU.

The U.S. is in the process of negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade and investment (free trade) agreement with the European Union (EU).

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an agreement that could allow the U.K. to import U.S. foods that are higher in pesticides and growth hormones than current British regulations allow.

Of course, this would involve countries not entering into deals such as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), which affects New Zealand and Australia, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which could considerably constrain the ability of sovereign governments to make such laws (1 November, p 32).

These agreements include the Trans - Pacific Partnership between the US and 11 Pacific Rim countries, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the US and the European Union and a potential new agreement between the US and the United Kingdom after Brexit.

On the face of it, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is extremely boring: a deal to remove certain barriers to trade between the Europe Union and the United States.

In support of harmonising regulations between the US and Europe through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), designed to break down barriers to trade, Tracey Brown asks who would defend a return to the wasteful delays of countries running separate clinical drug trials to meet local regulations.

In support of harmonising regulations between the US and Europe through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), designed to...

I was very pleased to read your articles exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)(1 November, p 32).

Jose Manuel Barroso has hailed EU - US plans to negotiate «a comprehensive transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement».

On TTIP (transatlantic trade and investment partnership) Labour were working to protect public services, and for alternatives to the ISDS (investor state dispute settlement) whereby companies can sue governments, in secret, for interfering with their profits.

EU - US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which are taking place in Brussels this week, would give corporations litigation rights over national parliaments, meaning any policy which loses them money will be severely punished in the arbitration tribunals.

Certainly, agreement over the «Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership» (TTIP) could remove unnecessary trade barriers and boost growth at no cost.

This shift in global trade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment treaty.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade agreement, which is currently being negotiated between Europe and the US and is a source of concern among many of those leaning towards a Remain vote, would still go ahead if the UK voted for Brexit, according to Corbyn.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was supposed to be the platform for projecting western norms and values for manufacturing and commerce across the globe.

The prospects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) being signed and ratified look slimmer by the day.

VoteWatch has the results of the Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) of 08/07/2015, but it says 436 For and 241 Against.

Download this excellent booklet by John Hilary» The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: a Charter for deregulation, and attack on jobs, an end to democracy

The comment given below was posted to my Blog, Stop TTIP — the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership by someone calling themselves «Informed Counsel» and giving their URL as http://www.itssd.org/.

Much heralded in Canada, CETA was barely noticed on the other side of the Atlantic until Europe entered similar negotiations with the Obama administration on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

At the same time the TTIP [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] is to be brought from oblivion.

Negotiations of the EU-U.S. trade deal, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, may have hit a snag after a leaked document appears to give the U.S. and large corporations disproportionate weight in future trade decisions.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has been a major issue among NGOs and activists who claim that the proposed agreement undermines national sovereignty, the environment, and digital rights.

What's more, average EU tariffs against the U.S. currently sit at only 3 percent and further reducing tariffs, including in the automotive and agricultural sectors, was a key objective of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks launched during Barack Obama but essentially abandoned by Trump.

In particular, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) remains relevant: its goal — bringing together two of the world's largest economies around a high - standard agreement - is still a worthy one that would go a long way in sending a concerted message to Beijing.28

Whether the dead - on - arrival negotiations on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the EU can eventually be resuscitated is too early to tell.

But two trade agreements President Obama wants to advance as part of an ambitious domestic agenda for his last two years in office — the Trans - Pacific partnership in Asia and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Europe — are getting push - back from both the left and right.

Currently, President Obama is negotiating an overarching free trade agreement with the E.U., called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Further, their role is likely to grow as the U.S. considers trade agreements such as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Not exact matches

We are therefore likely to see the birth of the progeny of TTIP and a British Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (BTIP).