January 20th 2017 Tomorrow, campaigners will hold a Valentine’s themed event in Dublin city centre as part of a European Day of Action against the EU-Canada trade deal. The European Parliament is set to vote on the deal this February during the week of Valentine’s Day, and campaigners are asking Read more…
January 13th 2017 A coalition of Irish farmers, environmentalists, trade unionists, global justice groups and small business organisations have called on MEPs to oppose the EU Canada trade deal known as CETA. The groups co-signed a letter to members of a European Parliament committee calling for rejection of the deal Read more…
December 15th, 2016 A protest against CETA took place this Wednesday outside Irish Parliament. It was organized by Comhlàmh’s Trade Justice Group and supported by other groups like Friends of the Earth Ireland, Uplift – People Powered Change and The Environmental Pillar. CETA is the trade agreement between the EU Read more…
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November 29th, 2016 Hundreds of organisations, including Irish environmental groups, are calling on lawmakers to reject the EU Canada trade deal. Earlier this week a coalition of 455 civil society organisations published an open letter calling for MEPs to reject the deal which they say threatens our environmental regulations and workers Read more…
The Seanad has voted against the EU Canada trade deal that the European Commission hope to bring in at the end of the month. The vote makes the Irish parliament first in the world to reject the deal and Friends of the Earth are calling on the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to respect the vote of the Seanad. This trade deal, the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement or CETA for short, is part of a new breed of trade deals that raise serious issues about the power of multinational companies. CETA, if it is allowed to go ahead, will see companies able to sue countries like Ireland for bringing in laws that damage their profits. Examples of this include: tobacco companies suing for new laws against cigarette packaging and energy companies suing over fracking bans.
July 25th, 2016 GMOs are a hot topic when it comes to agriculture. Praised or despised they have a growing importance in our every day lives. The European Union has managed to protect European soils from GMO crops, however the importation of products is becoming easier. Largely used to feed Read more…
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a free trade agreement between Canada and the EU. The negotiations were concluded in August 2014 with the agreement to be approved by Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and potentially all EU member states. If this agreement is implemented it would eliminate 98% of the tariffs between Canada and the EU. Similar to TTIP the economic and regulatory features of these agreements has brought them into conflict with domestic legislation.
