On the 9th of November 2015 Attac Ireland was proud to host the Irish leg of Maude Barlow's international speaking tour on CETA. This is the speech given by Patricia King of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions … [Read more...]
The undersigned call on the US, the EU, and Canada to exclude any form of Investor-State-Dispute Settlement from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), from the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and from all other trade and investment agreements.
This week, the US and the EU will resume negotiations on investment protection in TTIP. The European Commission – claiming to have listened to public opinion – produced its proposal for a ‘new’ Investment Court System (ICS) that would allegedly … [Read more...]
London Review of Books Lecture by James Meek. “Taxation, ‘Robin Hood in a Time of Austerity'”
The Robin Hood Tax or Financial Transaction Tax (often labelled an FTT in the acronym soup of financial jargon) is a tiny tax on the financial sector, typically only a fraction of one percent. The key reasons for its implementation we can see from … [Read more...]
An Introduction to TTIP by John Reynolds of NUI Maynooth
Introduction. (ISDS Etc.) “Just a little bit of context on the international law setting in which the TTIP is being situated and being negotiated…I won’t bore you too much with this stuff” (2.40) A rough guide to the contents. ISDS system … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Ireland Submission to Irish Political Party General Election Manifestos
Discourse on tax and human rights is somewhat recent, but has firmly established tax policy as a human rights issue with implications for citizen’s enjoyment of these rights in both Ireland and developing countries. The next General Election comes at … [Read more...]
