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Panel Debate
Climate Change Policies & WTO Trade Rules: Conflict or Coherence?
WTO Public Forum, Geneva, 29 September 2009
Organised by CIEL & FoEE
Invitation & Programme
Programme of the Forum
Public Forum
Forum on Alternative Trade Relations Between the EU and Latin America
European Parliament, Brussels, 23 September 2009
Speech of Charly Poppe
Invitation (English)
Convocatoria (Español)
Programme
Conference
Algunas Verdades en las Negociaciones UE-Colombia/Ecuador/Peru
Brussels, 7 May 2009
Invitation
Poster
Demonstration
No to unfair trade agreements between the EU and the Andean countries!
Brussels, 6 May 2009
Call to mobilisation
Public Hearing
Trade negotiations between the EU and Colombia
European Parliament, Brussels, 29 April 2009
Invitation: ES - EN - FR
Report
Roundtable meeting
 EU-Central America negotiations for an Association Agreement
European Parliament,
28 January 2009
Memoria
Convocatoria
'Global Europe' Conference
Panel Debate
Addressing Global Environmental Challenges: What to Expect from Future WTO Dispute Settlement Panels?
WTO Public Forum, Geneva, 25 September 2008
Read Charly Poppe's opening address
Read the debate's report
European Social Forum
Malmö, Sweden,
17-21 September 2008
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Enlazando Alternativas
Cumbre de los Pueblos
Lima, 13-16 May 2008 
Read the Final Declaration
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Read the Call to Lima
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Signatory organisations
Week of events on EU FTAs
In April 2008 FoEE, together with allied networks, organised the largest ever gathering of civil society organisations on EU Free Trade Agreements.
More information
Conference
La Sociedad Civil Toma la Palabra, Second Round of Negotiations between the EU and Central America
European Parliament, 27 February 2008
More information
FoEE's presentation
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Panel Debate
'Trade and Climate Change: Peril or Promise?', WTO Public Forum, Geneva, 5 October 2007
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Interview
Charly Poppe, FoEE Trade Campaigner, was interviewed by Radio Mundo Real on the role of the EU in global trade negotiation and their impact on the environment, 6 April 2007.
Listen to the interview in English, French, Spanish
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Conference
"The EU's responsibility at the WTO: Environment, Gender and Development"
9 November 2005, European Parliament, Brussels
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Negotiations between the EU, Peru and Colombia: Statement from Civil Society Organisations from Europe and the Andean Region
September 2009
EN ; ES ; FR
Signatories
Honduras Coup: Letter to EU decision-makers from Civil Society Organisations, 4 September 2009
EN ; ES
Honduras Coup: Letter to Catherine Ashton from Civil Society Organisations, 14 July 2009
Honduras Coup: Letter to José-Manuel Barroso from Civil Society Organisations, 2 July 2009
Stop the Violence Against Peruvian Indigenous People: STOP NOW THE FTAs!, International Civil Society Statement, Call to the Government of Peru, Government of US, the EU and European Governments, June 2009
Letter to Catherine Ashton on the EU-Central America Trade SIA, 15 June 2009
EN, ES
Letter to Mr Barroso on the Massacres of Indigenous People in Peru and FTA Negotiations, 11 June 2009
Letter to the European Commission on DG Trade's Civil Society Dialogue, Members of the Seattle to Brussels Network, 26 May 2009
Fix the crisis, not the banks' profits!
Statement of European civil society organisations to the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, May 2009
Open Letter on DG Trade's Secretive and Manipulative Access to Information Policy,
14 May 2009
Bi-regional civil society statement on the EU-Central America FTA negotiations, May 2009
EN ; ES
Open letter to EU Member States on EU-Andeans trade negotiations, IP provisions and access to medicines, 23 April 2009
Carta a los negociadores de Centroamérica y de la Union europea, 21 de abril de 2009
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Statement on the suspension of the 7th round of negotiations between the EU and Central America, NGOs, 3 April 2009
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Carta a las comisarias europeas sobre las negociaciones UE-Andinos, 13 de marzo 2009
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El Acuerdo de Asociación entre Centroamerica y la Union Europea la 6. ronda de negociaciones, Posición común de FoEE y ATALC, January 2009
Civil society letter to EU Commissioners Ferrero-Waldner and Ashton ahead of the 6th round of negotiations between the EU and Central America, 14 January 2009
EN, ES, FR, NL
International civil society statement on EU-CAN negotiations, 5 December 2008
EN, ES
Letter to R. Zoellick ahead of ICSID Administrative Council, international civil society organisations, 3 October 2008
EN ES
Dangerous Changes in GATS Negotiating Rules, Open Letter to WTO delegations of civil society organisations, 14 July 2008
EN ES
Civil Society Letter to Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Peter Mandelson: Recommendations ahead of the EU-CAN Association Agreement fourth round of negotiations, 25 June 2008
EN, ES, FR, NL
Social and Environmental Standards in EU FTAs - Presentation to the Special Committee on Globalisation of the Belgian Parliament
20 June 2008
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The EU's responsibility in the global food crisis: trade liberalisation and deregulation are "false solutions"
Open Letter of European Civil Society Organisations to EU Trade and Agriculture Ministers
19 June 2008
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The WTO's Doha Round will not Solve the Global Food Crisis - Time for Real Solutions
International Open Letter of Civil Society Organisations to Trade and Agriculture Ministers
3 June 2008
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Enlazando Alternativas 3 - Lima - Final Declaration
16 May 2008
EN ES FR IT
The WTO and the Food and Financial Crises
Statement of Civil Society Organisations, 24 April 2008
Civil Society Declaration to the EU-LAC Summit, Lima, 1 April 2008
English Castellano
Call to Lima's Peoples' Summit
April 2008
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Signatory organisations
EU-Central America first negotiating round
NGO letter to European negotiators, 15 October 2007
Castellano
Stop EPAs!
Global civil society statement, 27 September 2007
English Français
European and Korean Civil Society and Social Movements Unite Against the 'Global Europe' Strategy and the South-Korea-EU FTA
Statement for the third FTA negotiation round, Brussels, 19 September 2007
NO to a new FTA with the EU!
Declaration of social movements of the Andean region, Latin America and Europe on the EU-CAN Association Agreement, September 2007
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"The absolutism of the key tenets of neoliberalism: privatisation, deregulation, balanced budgets have been rejected by all but the most dogmatic. Apart from one - the primacy of free trade."
Noreena Hertz, 1 April 2009
Today's dominant trade patterns and policies are fundamentally unsustainable and unfair. Friends of the Earth Europe believes alternative, equitable and environmentally sound approaches to trade are possible.
As the world's largest trading bloc, the European Union plays a major role in global trade negotiations. FoEE believes the current position of the EU in international trade fora is misplaced. This position, based on the 'Global Europe' doctrine, puts forward a purely ideological 'competitiveness' agenda which promotes deregulation and a narrow 'market access' approach to trade. "Trade expansion" is pursued as the ultimate goal of trade policy, based on the idea that it is per se beneficial to society.
Furthermore, in contrast with its multilateralist rhetoric, the EU has become the world champion in bilateral trade agreements, fuelling a snowballing mad race for markets and natural resources.
Friends of the Earth Europe believes that the EU must review its overall position and take a lead role in fundamental changes to the world trading system in line with its sustainable development and poverty eradication objectives.
In a time where a series of systemic crises of our "growth economy" are unfolding, more and more people around the world want their governments to move away from outdated and corporate-driven "ultraliberal" or "neomercantilist" strategies, as they feel the detrimental impacts of unfair trade policies on social and community rights, wealth distribution, biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaption policies, and the preservation of natural resources.
Already today the implementation of existing WTO agreements and institutional procedures are undermining environmental and social standards. Now is the time for review and for repair. Now is the time to develop a more sustainable, democratic and equitable trading system for the 21st century in harmony with the limits of our planet and with people's needs and dreams.
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An economy for the well-being of people and the planet. Position paper of Friends of the Earth Europe on the Financial Crisis (September 2009)
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Is World Trade Law A Barrier to Saving Our Climate, Questions & Answers, FoEE-CIEL, September 2009
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EU's Raw Materials Initiative, Commentary, FoEE, February 2009
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Global Europe: The Tyranny of "Free Trade", The European Way
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Undercutting Africa, Impact of EPAs on Forests and Biodiversity, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland & FoEE, Oct. 2008
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French Presidency of the EU - Prospects for Trade Policy, Briefing Paper, April 2008
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Climate Change and International Trade: The Need for a Paradigm Shift, article by Meena Raman and Charly Poppe, PES publication, January 2008
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From Hearing to Listening: Improving the Dialogue between DG Trade and Civil Society, ActionAid, FoEE, Solidar, March 2007
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Corporate Power over EU Trade Policy: Good for Business, Bad for the World
Report, Seattle to Brussels Network, Oct. 2006
Media briefing about the report
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