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Travel guide: EU – Colombia, Peru & Ecuador

From Jeremy Oestreich and Bettina Müller / 18.11.2021 Comments Disabled

Poverty increase or a way out of poverty? A trade agreement has been in place between the EU and Peru, Colombia, since 2013. Ecuador acceded to the agreement in 2017. PowerShift, in cooperation with civil society [...]

Travel guide: EU-Mexico – All power to...? investors.

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Travel guide: EU-Mexico – All power to...? investors.

From Bettina Müller / 28.04.2021 Comments Disabled

An introduction to the EU-Mexico trade agreement The renewed EU-Mexico trade agreement is expected to be the first to be voted on in the EU Council and European Parliament in 2021. The EU is looking [...]

Toxic business – with the EU-Mercosur agreement

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Toxic business – with the EU-Mercosur agreement

From Bettina Müller / 13.11.2020 Comments Disabled

More pesticides, less rainforest and more sick people – these are the imminent consequences of the EU's trade agreement with the four Mercosur countries: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. With the agreement [...]

Highly dangerous pesticides for South America – the EU-Mercosur Agreement

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Highly dangerous pesticides for South America – the EU-Mercosur Agreement

From Bettina Müller / 06.11.2020 Comments Disabled

https://youtu.be/-NnmVJvPdJo One of the consequences of the controversial EU-Mercosur agreement would be the increase in exports of highly dangerous pesticides from the EU to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay - pesticides that are partly [...]

Travel guide: EU Mercosur: Ahead of the (climate) crisis

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Trade and investment policy Climate policy publication

Travel guide: EU Mercosur: Ahead of the (climate) crisis

From Bettina Müller / 29.10.2020 Comments Disabled

The travel guide "EU-Mercosur: Forward into the (climate) crisis" leads to the most popular destinations of European products, destroying industries in Mercosur and further heating the climate. Come with us on [...]

EU-Mercosur - A toxic agreement

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EU-Mercosur - A toxic agreement

From Bettina Müller / 23.10.2020 Comments Disabled

Der Reiseführer zum EU-Mercosur Abkommen und Pestizidhandel Der "Reiseführer: EU-Mercosur - ein giftiges Abkommen" führt zu den beliebtesten Reisezielen von in Deutschland produzierten Pestiziden, in diesem Fall in die vier […]

Travel guide: EU-Mercosur - A toxic agreement

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Travel guide: EU-Mercosur - A toxic agreement

From Bettina Müller / 23.08.2020 Comments Disabled

The "Travel guide: EU-Mercosur - a toxic agreement" leads to the most popular destinations of pesticides produced in Germany, in this case in the four Mercosur states: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The [...]

Open letter on the EU-Mercosur agreement

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Open letter on the EU-Mercosur agreement

From Bettina Müller / 30.06.2020 Comments Disabled

Shortly before the start of the EU Council Presidency and on the anniversary of the political agreement of the EU-Mercosur Agreement, 60 organisations of the German and 265 civil society organisations from the [...]

Open letter on the Energy Charter Treaty

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Open letter on the Energy Charter Treaty

From Bettina Müller / 10.12.2019 Comments Disabled

On the occasion of the planned modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), we – as one of 278 civil society organisations and trade unions – are calling for an open letter to the German [...]

60 years of bilateral investment protection – a ticking time bomb

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60 years of bilateral investment protection – a ticking time bomb

From Alessa Hartmann and Bettina Müller / 25.11.2019 Comments Disabled

Germany's bilateral investment agreements under the scrutiny of corporate lawmakers stand in the way of a progressive climate policy and endanger environmental and consumer protection. A large part of corporate lawsuits against states are based on bilateral investment treaties.