EU-US trade deal threatens to undermine global climate ambitions.
Together with over 80 orgs we ask the EU: Don’t trade off our climate for the European car industry!
https://t.co/cf5H0BJpAu
#trade4people#TTIP#ParisAgreement
Despite massive public resistance, EU trade policy continues to put public interest policy-making in jeopardy, through mechanisms like regulatory cooperation and investor protection #ISDS, writes @PauldeClerck3
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via @ALTEREU
"There's an extreme imbalance between business lobbies and ALL other interests." EU attempts to hear other voices are too few and often flawed - take for example the common pro-business skew of the Commission's public consultations, prompts Frank Ey from @Arbeiterkammer.
"Assymetrical influence is the most pressing issue of our times" - nothing more to add to this opening statement of the @OECD's Mariana Prats at tonight's big @ALTEREU event on the harm caused by the undue influence of #CorporatePower on policy-making.
A brand new report helps to expose Big Alcohol, to bust some entrenched alcohol myths and proposes concrete solutions to the pervasive alcohol harm worldwide.
Here's why alcohol policy should be made a global priority >>... https://t.co/48ofMjaGX0
World’s biggest pharmaceutical companies are depriving govts out of $billions that could be invested in healthcare. At the same time, they're overpricing essential medicines, putting them out of reach of poor people.
Read the new report: https://t.co/huM1lwzlDn #NoMoreTaxDodging
Environment minister Hulot yesterday resigned over Macron's climate policies and corporate lobbying influence: "we’re going to have to put this problem (with lobbies) on the table, because it’s a democratic problem: Who has the power, who is governing?” https://t.co/WLhpfS3oo0
Our 69th World Congress has approved the report of the International Board 🙌🏾 Four years and lots of work across our strategic areas has been reported on. Now we are headed towards new… https://t.co/dIUDLfnOTl
The final countdown is one. For our 69th World Congress. For a week of diversity. For the event of the summer bringing together our members from all around the world.
#FutureMadeHere#IOGT… https://t.co/6CXuHcjAR3
If you think that the @BBCNews should have a rule that Think Tanks can only appear on the BBC after disclosure of their main funders, then please retweet.
(If there is enough interest I will set up a petition to the BBC)
When preparing the #EUJapan trade deal #JEFTA, EU negotiators had 200+ closed-door meetings with lobbyists - 89% were with big business #lobbyists while only 4% were with public interest groups. No wonder the outcome is a deeply flawed trade deal! https://t.co/7n9dGlyxiT #EUTrade
Globally, 23% of all deaths could be prevented through healthier environments. Majority of these deaths are due to #NCDs. #HLPF2018 offers key opportunity to elevate dialogue on Human & Planetary Health. New @ncdalliance resource: https://t.co/j2Q53obSg5
We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? Our brand new report exposes the leverage of #BigFour accountancy firms over #EU policy-making on #TaxAvoidance. Check out their #EUlobbying, #revolvingdoors, and other channels of influence: https://t.co/OFtDOioit8
@Upstreaming@HealthandTrade Thank you @johanna_ralston for such a clear and strong message. Health is a human right. Trade is one means of many to achieve progress - for all all, not the few. The hierarchy should be clear, especially in the era of sustainable development #EnoughNCDs#BeatNCDS#hlm3#NCDs
“First, accountability must be assigned at the highest political levels...
“... the NCD agenda should be integrated into national Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) plans.”
The first of a… https://t.co/XAkKsJMSN3