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Greenpeace sounds alarm: TIPP a 'huge' transfer of power from people to big business
Topic Started: May 3 2016, 07:28 AM (536 Views)
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By Allen Cone | Updated May 2, 2016 at 12:39 PM

LONDON, May 2 (UPI) -- Greenpeace leaked classified documents related to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on Monday, warning that the documents show a "huge transfer of democratic power from people to big business."

"It is time to shine a light on these negotiations," said Faiza Oulahsen, campaigner for Greenpeace Netherlands. "Hard-won environmental progress is being bartered away behind closed doors. These documents reveal that civil society was right to be concerned about TTIP. We should stop the negotiations and start the debate."
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After the leaks showed what it stands for, could this be the end for TTIP?
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The documents show that US corporations will be granted unprecedented powers over any new public health or safety regulations to be introduced in future. If any European government does dare to bring in laws to raise social or environmental standards, TTIP will grant US investors the right to sue for loss of profits
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President Obama’s trip to London last week has partly been seen as an effort to drum up support for TTIP before the end of his time in the White House Getty
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Beef, ethanol excluded from EU trade offer to Mercosur
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Blocs make proposals in key step to move forward on free-trade deal negotiations
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Efforts to broker a deal with the members of Mercosur — Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela — have made little progress since they began in 2000.

Stumbling blocks have included European demands to exclude agricultural exports — one of the most desired sectors for Latin American countries — while Mercosur has been reluctant to lower its sizeable industrial tariffs, as requested by the EU.

But the arrival of the Mauricio Macri administration in Argentina, which has prioritized closer ties with Europe, opened a “new, unique window of opportunity” for the negotiations, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told the European Parliament on Tuesday.
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Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra during a press conference alongside EU High Representative Federica Mogherini in Brussels last month.
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Macri Not Backing Rousseff Shows Argentina More Focused on US, Transpacific
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The fact that the current Argentine government did not support Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as she was getting impeached shows that Buenos Aires is less oriented toward regional integration, Argentine member of the Mercosur Parliament Agustin Rossi told Sputnik.
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Brazil, Argentina Scuttle BRICS-Oriented Foreign Policy, Opt for London’s Fascist Free Trade Instead
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With the illegal ouster of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, the era of fascist coups has returned to Ibero-America, and with it, a shift away from the BRICS-oriented policies of regional and international cooperation to promote economic development and continental integration.
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Brazil's new top diplomat shifts focus from ideology to trade
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The arrival of a tough-talking foreign minister in Brazil marks a move away from ideologically-driven diplomacy that raised tensions with the United States and towards a big push on trade.

Jose Serra's first foreign visit to Argentina on Monday focused on restoring South America's Mercosur customs union to its purpose as a free trade area, after Venezuela's entry in 2012 turned it into a left-leaning political forum.
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Brazilian new Foreign Minister Jose Serra attends his inauguration ceremony at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino


Brazil, Argentina align on all but trade
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With Mercosur on agenda, Pink House hints that countries may still take different paths
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Brazilian Foreign Minister José Serra and Argentine President Mauricio Macri shake hands in Buenos Aires yesterday.

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Argentina suggests countries may still go their different ways on trade
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Despite the clear harmony at a political level and what can be read as theoretical coincidences over the direction of foreign trade, the different needs of the Mauricio Macri and Michel Temer administrations came to light yesterday.


Interview with Social Sciences Latin American Council (Clacso) head Pablo Gentili
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Key political support for Brazil’s interim government has made it clear that Brasilia’s priority in foreign trade is oriented toward the major powers, with the United States in a prominent first place.

The centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) — represented in the Cabinet by the Foreign Minister José Serra among others — considers commercial ties with Argentina and the wider region as a burden on Brazil’s back.

Argentine Pablo Gentili has taught for more than 20 years at the University of Rio de Janeiro and currently serves as executive secretary for the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLASCO). In an interview with the Herald, he assesses the relationship between Michel Temer’s Brazil and Mauricio Macri’s Argentina.


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