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Toxic Double Standards – How Europe sells products deemed too dangerous for Europeans to the rest of the world

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Toxic Double Standards – How Europe sells products deemed too dangerous for Europeans to the rest of the world

From Leonel / 25.09.2024 Comments Disabled

More than 100 non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International, the Children's Rights International Network and Greenpeace, have called on the European Union to call them "hypocritical, cruel, unfair and intolerable".

Web series: ¡BASTA! – Feminist voices on EU trade agreements with Latin America

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Web series: ¡BASTA! – Feminist voices on EU trade agreements with Latin America

From Bettina Müller / 24.09.2024 Comments Disabled

Last year, in a joint project with organisations from Argentina and Brazil, we conducted studies on the impact of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement on women and women-readers. [...]

Climate check Trade policy – How climate-friendly is European trade policy?

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Climate check Trade policy – How climate-friendly is European trade policy?

From Thomas Fritz / 14.06.2024 Comments Disabled

Summary Introduction EU foreign trade: Contribution to climate change trade agreements: Drivers of global warming Multilateral trade policy: inconsistent Unilateral trading instruments: Not always climate-friendly European foreign investment: Lack of...

For a fair EU trade policy! Send your candidate an email

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For a fair EU trade policy! Send your candidate an email

From Bettina Müller / 29.04.2024 Comments Disabled

European trade and investment agreements are still not in line with the EU's climate and sustainable development goals. Trade policy and the European Green Deal are in stark contradiction [...]

Case study: CETA assessment of the climate impact of trade policies and agreements

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Case study: CETA assessment of the climate impact of trade policies and agreements

From Alessa Hartmann and Thomas Fritz / 11.04.2024 Comments Disabled

Introduction Methodology EU-Canada trade in goods Climate policy rules, institutions and decisions Committees set up under CETA and bilateral dialogues Investments: Flows, Stocks and Protection Recommendations

Climate check trade policy

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From Thomas Fritz / 19.02.2024 Comments Disabled

How climate-friendly is European trade policy? Introduction The European Union's trade policy contributes significantly to climate change. In particular, their import-related emissions are considerable: The EU [...]

Travel guide: Partnership at eye level? – The EU-Chile Trade and Investment Agreement

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Travel guide: Partnership at eye level? – The EU-Chile Trade and Investment Agreement

From Bettina Müller / 23.01.2024 Comments Disabled

In order to further deepen trade between the EU and resource-rich Chile and, above all, to further promote trade in raw materials and agricultural products, the economic partners [...]

Travel guide: Globally just green transformation? The Role of Trade Agreements in European Raw Materials Security

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Travel guide: Globally just green transformation? The Role of Trade Agreements in European Raw Materials Security

From Bettina Müller / 06.12.2023 Comments Disabled

In order to switch energy supply, transport and industry to propulsion and the supply of renewable energies, and thus advance the green transformation envisaged in the European Green Deal, the EU needs many [...]

Travel guide: Unsafe work, job loss and poverty – the impact of the EU-Mercosur agreement on women

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Travel guide: Unsafe work, job loss and poverty – the impact of the EU-Mercosur agreement on women

From Bettina Müller / 16.11.2023 Comments Disabled

Unsafe work, job loss and poverty – women in particular are negatively affected by the impact of neoliberal trade agreements. The agreement between the EU and the four South American countries of Mercosur is [...]

CETA: Greenwashing at the expense of democracy and the environment

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CETA: Greenwashing at the expense of democracy and the environment

From Alessa Hartmann / 21.09.2023 Comments Disabled

CETA: Greenwashing at the expense of democracy and the environment Despite the high number of social and environmental crises, the EU Commission and the Federal Government are sticking to a trade policy that [...]