From the movements
ECVC joins the 4 September demonstration in Brussels! Farmers refuse to foot the bill: Stop EU-Mercosur, Stop EU-US, Stop CAP’s dismantling!
ECVC farmers from Belgian, France, Germany, and the Netherlands will join civil society actors this Thursday at 5pm in Place du Luxembourg in Brussels to call for an end to the EU-Mercosur FTA.
Te Taiao and climate crisis
Recent agreements (negotiated in secret) also guarantee foreign corporations the rights to lobby against new laws in the name of “transparency”; guaranteed rights that iwi and hapū don’t have.
EU-US trade plans revive a monster from the dead
The ‘framework agreement’ on trade between the EU and the US that was published August 21 is a worrying reminiscence of the infamous TTIP -the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership- of a decade ago.
Britain sued in ‘corporate court’ over quashing of coal mine in Cumbria
Lawsuit is the first known case under Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) against the UK since 2006 proceeding to arbitration, and the first ISDS case brought against it in response to a climate policy.
NZ is looking for a deal over Trump’s new tariffs – that could come with a high political price
When the Trump administration arbitrarily imposed 15% tariffs on New Zealand exports on August 1, up from a previously announced 10%, no one should have been surprised.
