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Week of Strategy and Action Against EU FTAs |
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April 6-11, 2008
Join us for a week of strategy planning and action against European FreeTrade Agreements
Over 50 networks, movements and organisations from the Global South and Europe will join together to sound the alarm on EU Free Trade Agreements
(FTAs)
- April 9 Public Hearing in European Parliament on EU FTAs followed by press conference, action and meeting, Brussels
- April 10/11 Lobbying and advocacy programmes in Brussels, Dublin, London, Madrid, Amsterdam/The Hague and other EU cities
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Global Europe and ASEAN: Impacts of EU’s Competitiveness Strategy on Southeast Asia |
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by Joseph Purugganan, August 2007
The European Union has for a number of
years been trying to consolidate and fine tune strategies aimed at
strengthening its competitiveness and its capacity to address the new
challenges of the rapidly changing global market. Promotion of trade
and investment is clearly a priority for Europe. In 2000, it came up
with the Lisbon Strategy, the blueprint for making EU "the most
dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable
of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs, greater
social cohesion and respect for the environment by 2010." (1)
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A NEW WTO TRADE DEAL BAD FOR THE PHILIPPINESA NEW WTO TRADE DEAL BAD FOR THE PHILIPPINES |
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 SNR Coalition leads huge protest against proposed new trade agreements
A broad coalition of social movements and civil society organizations assailed the current negotiations for new multilateral trade deals under the World Trade Organization and demanded that the Philippine government led by our chief negotiator Trade Secretary Peter Favila oppose any such deal from moving forward in Hong Kong.
Around 5, 000 farmers, fishers, laborers, students, urban poor, small producers and NGO workers from the Stop the New Round! Coalition are expected to gather at Plaza Miranda to dramatize their opposition to new trade agreements.
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Coalition launches nationwide campaign to derail WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong |
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 MANILA -- A year-long, nationwide campaign against a new round of trade liberalization was launched today in Manila by the Stop the New Round! Coalition.
The busy street of Morayta leading to Malacañan Palace in Manila turned into an ocean of colorful streamers, flags, banners and effigies as over 1,000 members of the SNR! coalition marched to Malacañan demanding that the Philippine government desist from making new commitments in the WTO that would further open the economy to the exigencies of global trade.
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Philippines taken for a (joy)ride |
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by Joseph Purugganan
Research Associate
Focus on the Global South
Officals from Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Agriculture have expressed their elation over the outcome of the recent General Council (that in effect became a Ministerial Meeting) of the World Trade Organization in Geneva. The basis for their overwhelming joy is their belief that the framework agreement that came out of the meeting [1] Reflects the main demands of the Philippines in the negotiations; and [2] that the framework and consequently the negotiations for the conclusion of the so-called Doha Round will be beneficial to the Philippines.
Interestingly, the last time the heads of these two departments expressed this much happiness in relation to talks in the WTO was in September 2003, right after the historic (second) collapse of the WTO negotiations in Cancun, Mexico. Both Secretary Cito Lorenzo and Secretary Manuel Roxas II then called the collapse a positive development for the Philippines. Secretary Roxas expressed further the sentiment expressed by many developing countries, that “No deal is better than a bad deal.”
So what’s the deal with the WTO Framework? |
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