Statements

Final declaration of the Week of Action against BITs and for an Alternative Investment Regime. Read or download it in English, Spanish or French, and se the lsit of the signatures up to date 6th December 2011. To sign this statement send an email to Cecilia Olivet (TNI)

Europe's resource reduction plan doesn't measure up. Press release of Friends Of the Earth Europe on the EU Commission Communication "Roadmap to a resource efficient Europe" on 20.09.2011.

On Monday 12 September the General Affairs Council approved negotiating mandates for investment protection chapters in free trade agreements with Canada, India and Singapore. European Member States refuse necessary reform, ignore the will of the European Parliament and insist that future EU investment agreements copy their bad practices. Read or download the S2B Statement and the text of the mandates.

Europe?s people are now experiencing the first structural adjustment policies which governments are imposing on their populations that until now have been imposed on peoples in other regions in particular the Global South; this with the sole interest of saving capitalism and those who benefit from it (private banks, investment groups and transnational corporations). All signs are that in the near future these antisocial policies will become more severe and extensive (...)

Statement by the Seattle to Brussels Network 6th April 2011: "European Parliament Resolution on international investment not strong enough to end threat to democratic governance and public interests".  Today the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the future European investment policy. This resolution comes as a response to a Communication by the Commission following the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty that has added Foreign Direct Investment to the exclusive common commercial policy of the EU (...)

Online petition for individuals in English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian

European civil society calls for a European international investment policy which promotes sustainable development and decent work - Sign on statement in (English - Italian - French - Spanish - Dutch - German)- Updated list of the organisations and Networks who signed this statement.

European civil society calls for a halt to negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada

Last chance to prevent onslaught on people's rights and livelihoods! Civil society groups call for an immediate halt to the India-EU trade negotiations - October 2010

Call to Action - Challenging and Eroding Corporate Power - Building States of Citizens for Citizens, 5th October 2010

Reclaiming public interest in Europe's international investment policy - Civil society statement on the future of Europe's international investment policy - (English, Spanish) - July 2010

Final Declaration of the Peolpls' Summit Linking Alternatives IV, Madrid 19th May 2010 - (ENGLISH - FRANCAISE - PORTUGUES - DEUTSCH - ITALIANO)

• People's summit linking Alternatives III Declaration, Joint Declaration from the Enlazando Alternativas 3, Lima, 13-16 May 2008 (Spanish, Italian, English)
• No to Corporate Europe - Yes to Global Justice!, Statement, WSF Global Day of Action, 26 January 2008

• Stop EPAs!, Global Civil Society Statement, 27 September 2007  (English - Français)
• Declaration of European and Korean Social Movements and Civil Society Organisations on the First EU-Korea FTA Round, 19 September 2007
• No to a New FTA with the EU! - Declaration of Andean and European Social Movements on the EU-CAN negotiations, September 2007  (Castellano, English, Français)

• Global Europe: An Open Door Policy for Big Business at DG Trade, CEO, October 2008
• Analyse critique de 'Global Europe', AITEC (FR)
• Position War on Want, April 2008
• Position Friends of the Earth, June 2007
• G8 leaflet, June 2007 (EN)
• Llamada a la sociedad civil europea, Noviembre de 2006 (ES)
• Appel à la société civile européenne, novembre 2006 (FR)
• Alert to European civil society, November 2006