Free Trade Agreement

Extraction of raw materials and EU trade policy

From Leonel / 22.10.2024 Comments Disabled

Presentation and discussion with Bettina Müller, speaker, PowerShift e.V., Berlin The EU needs raw materials to make its economy and society “climate neutral”. But they don't have the raw materials they need, or [...]

Commercial Policy Guided Tour of the Supply Chain Act

From Leonel / 28.09.2024 Comments Disabled

The German Supply Chain Act is a milestone for globally fairer trade. But while it has already led to initial progress in the protection of human rights, some actors are trying to undermine the law. [...]

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. [...]

Press release: 500 NGOs call for NO to EU-Chile agreement

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Press release: 500 NGOs call for NO to EU-Chile agreement

From Adrian Bornmann / 26.02.2024 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 27.02.2024: On Thursday 29 February, the European Parliament will vote on the trade and investment agreement with Chile. More than 500 civil society organisations and personalities from the EU and Latin America have [...]

EU Mercosur: Trade until collapse? – Business at the expense of climate and human rights, profits above all else

From Leonel / 10.10.2023 Comments Disabled

Information and discussion on consequences and resistance: The impact of the planned EU trade agreement in the South American Mercosur countries. And what we can do about it. Discuss: Biancka Arruda Miranda (cooperation Brazil [...]

Press release on the EU-Latin America Agreement

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Press release on the EU-Latin America Agreement

From Vanessa Fischer / 23.05.2023 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 22 May 2023. A few weeks before the summit of Latin American and European states (EU-CELAC), a broad alliance of civil society organisations from Germany, the EU and South America announces action-packed weeks. Within the framework of...

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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Integrating environmental and climate protection into trade agreements

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Integrating environmental and climate protection into trade agreements

From Fabian Flues / 11.05.2020 Comments Disabled

How trade agreements contribute to a more sustainable global economy could in many cases jeopardise ambitious environmental and climate protection. But that doesn't have to be the case. A variety of proposals exist, such as trade agreements...