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This section contains news and analysis of sweeping developments that affect the overall push and pull towards FTAs and bilateral investment treaties. This means major trends relating to bilateralism, often with global consequences, and other cross-cutting issues. New developments coming out of US politics, the WTO or South-South alliance-building, for instance, are often reported here as they tend to have systemic impacts.
last update: April 2009 Articles
Brussels moves on negotiating trade treaties
| 12-July-2010
The European Commission wants to replace a thicket of about 1,200 bilateral investment treaties signed by the EU’s 27 member states over five decades with far fewer treaties binding the entire bloc.
G20 leaders drop Doha target, see smaller deals
| 29-June-2010
World leaders dropped a commitment on Saturday to complete the troubled Doha trade round this year and vowed to push forward on bilateral and regional trade talks until a global deal could be done.
WTO DG Pascal Lamy Describes FTAs As "Politically Convenient" Instruments
| 25-June-2010
Asean has been interested in using Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) as instruments for promoting trade in the globalised economy.
VI cumbre UE-ALC: propuestas para la nueva arquitectura financiera, Enlazando Alternativas
| 1-June-2010
La Cumbre Alternativa de los Pueblos, “Enlazando Alternativas IV”, tiene como objetivo fortalecer nuevas convergencias solidarias entre nuestros pueblos, las resistencias populares emergentes y la construcción de un espacio político y de movilización birregional. 
The European Union on Wednesday signed agreements liberalizing trade with Central America, Peru and Colombia, while some Latin American leaders criticized such deals as only favouring rich countries.
EU-LatAm trade deals dangerous for both sides says José Bové
| 19-May-2010
“I think these agreements are dangerous for South American producers and for European producers. For example, the agro-food industry today wants to export huge amounts of milk, to try to offload surplus; that’s only for its benefit. It risks harming major milk producers Uruguay, Argentina and others.”
EU, Latam to talk trade, boycott threat looms
| 17-May-2010
The European Union will seek to conclude trade agreements with several Latin American countries and revive stalled negotiations with others when 60 European and Latin America countries meet this week in Madrid.
Facts are stubborn things when it comes to trade
| 10-May-2010
We’re all entitled to our own opinion about NAFTA-style trade pacts, but we’re not entitled to our own facts. The most peculiar claim is that the US has trade surpluses with its FTA partners, when in fact the data show we have a deficit.
EU balks at action on Japan economic pact
| 29-April-2010
The European Union on Wednesday agreed to launch a "joint examination" of its trade and investment ties with Japan, but waved aside Tokyo’s call for preparations for an "economic integration agreement" that supporters say would benefit both sides by billions of euros a year.
Memo to US: only fools rush in
| 22-March-2010
If negotiators aren’t careful, a US-China investment treaty could prove as explosive as currency manipulation or climate change |
Le stand de l’UE à la conférence sur le sida "saisi" par des militants défenseurs des génériques
| 21-July-2010
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the U.S.- South Korea Trade Agreement
| 30-June-2010
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