CETA

Thanks to CETA, the new Canada-EU "trade" agreement, this statement may no longer be true. It appears cell phones may be seized and searched at the border.

One of the many protests against the TTIP and CETA trade deals, this on in Berlinby Gaius PubliusIn our coverage recently of the European mass protests against the so-called "free trade" ag

RT | October 24, 2016 Wallonia is not going to be pressured into agreeing the EU-Canada trade deal according to the leader of the French-speaking Belgian region Paul Magnette. The EU has given Belgium an ultimatum to end its objection to the agreement by Monday. “Every time you try to put an ultimatum it makes […]

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“CETA and TTIP trade deals threaten environmental and consumer protection for millions of people in Europe, and North America.”

(COMMONDREAMS) Hundreds of thousands took to city streets across Germany on Saturday as they marched against a pair of corporate-backed trade deals they say will undermine democracy, attack workers and local economies, and accelerate the threats posed by corporate hegemony and global warming.

By Graham Vanbergen | TruePublica | September 9, 2016 The global mainstream media have loudly hailed the stunning success of the peoples uprising against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP in the light of its demise. In the last few years protests broke out all over Europe as the unelected bureaucrats steamed ahead […]

By Joyce Nelson | CounterPunch | July 6, 2016 Stung by Brexit, the EU bureaucrats seem intent on showing just how undemocratic they can be. Here are two examples just in the last seven days. The Glyphosate License On June 24, EU member states again refused (for a third time this year) to approve a […]

By Oliver Tickel  |  The Ecologist |  February 19, 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin will “launch a campaign of undercover attacks to destabilise the Baltic states on Nato’s eastern flank”, the Telegraph reports today – along with all other mainstream news media. How do we know this? Because the UK’s Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has […]

By Glyn Moody | Techdirt | October 15, 2014 Last month, the European Commission refused to accept a request to allow an official EU-wide petition called a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to take place. This was a curiously maladroit move by the Commission: it would have been easy to allow the petition against TAFTA/TTIP and […]