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Service trade with China set to be new impetus for EU recovery: expert
2-Mar-2015 Xinhua
Brussels and Beijing should speed up negotiation of a Sino-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty and strive to sign it within this year, a Chinese think-tank argues
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft services & investment offer (Feb 2015)
26-Feb-2015 BBC
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TiSA must include a gold-standard clause to protect public services
13-Feb-2015 EurActiv
European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions pushes for a compromise: a clause which would clearly exclude as widely as possible public services from the scope of TiSA.
TISA: Leaked document uncovers secret discussions that undermine access to health care
5-Feb-2015 TWHA
A secret discussion note for the Trade in Service Agreement (TISA) – leaked today by Associated Whistle-Blowing Press- uncovers that negotiators discuss reforms to the national health care systems in favour of international trade and the commercialisation of health care.
European Parliament is gearing up for TISA
19-Jan-2015 EurActiv
Overshadowed by the highly mediatised Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) negotiations are moving along, and will appear on the radar this year, promises Luxembourgish MEP Viviane Reding, responsible for the dossier.
Trade In Services Agreement: Goodbye privacy, hello censorship
31-Dec-2014 Counter Punch
Internet privacy and net neutrality would become things of the past if the secret Trade In Services Agreement comes to fruition.
Mainland China, Macao sign deal to promote free trade
19-Dec-2014 Yibada
China’s mainland and the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) signed a deal on Dec. 18, Thursday, to solidify a free trade agreement between their regions.
Leak shows: Trade treaty TiSA could undermine national data protection regulations
18-Dec-2014 Netzpolitik.org
The secretly negotiated trade treaty TiSA — short for “Agreement on Trade in Services” — jeopardizes privacy protection in international data transfers.
Proposal of new provisions applicable to all services of the secret TISA negotiations
18-Dec-2014 AWP
AWP releases a bilingual copy of the Proposal of New Provisions Applicable to All Services and the Annex on Professional Services of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA).
The TISA threat to food and agriculture
26-Nov-2014 IUF
Agriculture depends on a whole complex of services – water, credit, research, testing, marketing – which may be privatised by TISA, warns Peter Rossman.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and UK healthcare
12-Nov-2014 The BMJ
It is only now, in the context of EU-US negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), that the health implications of free trade agreements have become a front line political concern in the UK.
India gains little from FTAs on services front
23-Oct-2014
If you thought India’s services trade agreement with Asean is going to open the doors for Indian professionals to work in the 10-member trading bloc, you may be in for a surprise. Similar agreements with Japan and South Korea — which the government said will help Indian nurses, architects and even yoga professionals have not resulted in any visas.
UK: Nurses warn over EU-US trade deal
21-Oct-2014 Press Association
Uncertainty over the impact of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a "growing source of anxiety" among health workers, nurses’ leaders have warned.
Make no mistake, the TTIP is a move in the wrong direction
6-Oct-2014 The Conversation
While it would be wrong to say that the TTIP will lead to the wholesale privatisation of public services, it would potentially constrain governments’ ability to reverse past policy decisions to open up public services to competition as this would become a treaty-based commitment.
Asean free trade agreement review shows India ’got almost nothing’
3-Oct-2014 Financial Express
Barely a month after the government sealed the trade pact in services and investments with the Asean, an internal assessment of the deal that has been placed before the Cabinet Secretariat concludes that India has got “almost nothing” by signing the agreement.
Assessing regulatory impact of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – analysis
23-Sep-2014 Eurasia Review
This study considers the likely regulatory impact of the proposed EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in three key policy areas: investor protection, public services and food safety.
Teamsters make case against bad trade deals to top Democratic senators
19-Sep-2014 Teamsters
The Teamsters labour union told key US senators that secret ’trade’ deals like TPP and TISA threaten government workers’ jobs by opening them up to irreversible privatization by multinationals.
PSI Special Report: The Really Good Friends of Transnational Corporations Agreement
17-Sep-2014 PSI
The objective of this report is to help overcome the secrecy and complexity surrounding the TISA (Trade in Services Agreement) negotiations in order to bring the agreement into the public sphere for democratic debate.
India wary of issues on services in Canada pact
17-Sep-2014 LiveMint
Canada’s trade minister Ed Fast is scheduled to visit India next month to hold discussions with Nirmala Sitharaman to end the CEPA deadlock
MEPs urged to veto NHS trade deal
10-Sep-2014 Express and Star
The leader of the UK’s biggest union has written to all British MEPs urging them to vote against a controversial EU-US trade deal if the NHS is not exempted.