EU's Trade Strategy

Vote in the European Parliament: is liberalisation the answer to Arab revolutions? On year ago, populations in North Africa were in the streets to claim democracy and social justice. These two demands are under threat with the vote, this Thursday 10 May in the European Parliament: a resolution supporting the liberalization of trade and investment for serious engagement and for the EU to display political leadership under the lovely title ?trade for change? (...)

Make no mistake: the EU´s trade policy is about the EU´s offensive corporate interests - On Friday January 27th, the European Commission (EC) released a Communication entitled "Trade, growth and Development - Tailoring trade and investment policy for those countries most in need". The Seattle to Brussels Network finds this title grossly misleading (...)

The European Commission has presented a Reflections Paper on Services of General Interest in Bilateral Free Trade Agreements. The latter aims to reframe the understanding and treatment of public services in future trade negotiations. Against this background the Austria Chamber of Labour (AK) rejects any attempts to limit the scope of already established exemptions from liberalisation obligations and emphasises the lack of legal bases for the proposed division of the public services sector (...)

An Ecofair Trade Dialogue Discussion Paper: Human Rights in EU Trade Policy ? Between Ambition and Reality, By Armin Paasch, Published by Misereor, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Third World Network, Anthra, Glopolis, Ecofair Trade Dialogue (December 2011) (English - Deustch)

Briefing papers for journalists, decisions makers and the interested public comment on actual questions and political challenges of the international trade and investment policy. Published by WEED, WoW, WIDE & EED

• Protectionism versus Free Trade? ? The Wrong Debate!
• Free Trade and Financial Services ? The WTO as a stumbling block for the regulation of the financial market
• Free Trade instead of decent work? WTO and? 'Global Europe? as a danger for Decent Work
• Global Europe: The Corporate Agenda of the EU in the
  WTO ? and in new bilateral agreements!

Business as Usual? How Free Trade Agreements Jeopardise Financial Sector Reform published by SOMO, December 2010

S2B Press Release 9th November 2010 on the new EU's Commission Trade Strategy "Trade, Growth and World Affairs": After the failure of the "Global Europe Strategy", the new EU's 2020 trade strategy will reinforce the policies responsible for the economic, social and environmental crises

 How European Financial Sector Reforms affect Developing Countries, by  Myriam Vander Stichele, Published by SOMO, November 2010

• 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

• 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)