Citizens’ CETA summit

Citizens’ CETA summit

2016-10-28

After the CETA vote by EU Trade ministers has been postponed, European Stop TTIP and CETA campaigns organised the Citizens’ CETA Summit on 20th of October, 2016 in Brussels. During this summit, international experts as well as local representatives expressed their opposition to CETA. Furthermore, a joint declaration was signed.

Fact sheet on public procurement by Veblen Institute

Fact sheet on public procurement by Veblen Institute

2016-10-25

Veblen Institute, France published a fact sheet on public procurement. Here the paper’s key conclusions regarding CETA/TTIP & SMEs: → Better access to public procurement contracts in the USA for a very small number of European SMEs → Greater competition on the national and European public procurement markets given the

What TTIP means for the Health Sector: Unchecked Costs and Greater Pressure to Privatise

What TTIP means for the Health Sector: Unchecked Costs and Greater Pressure to Privatise

2016-09-12

In their position paper on TTIP the presidents and chairs of the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer (BÄK)), the German National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV)), the German Dentists Association (Bundeszahnärztekammer (BZÄK)), the Federal Union of German Associations of Pharmacists (Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Apothekerverbände (ABDA)) and the German

Report: A transatlantic agreement but at what cost to SMEs?

Report: A transatlantic agreement but at what cost to SMEs?

2015-11-20

Alongside the round XI of TTIP negotiations between the European Union and the United States, in Miami, Veblen Institute published a report called: A transatlantic agreement but at what cost to SMEs? The potential effects of the United States/Europe free trade agreement (TTIP) on local economies and SMEs In the