Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Debate in Dublin – Weds 5 Nov

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Saturday November 01, 2014 01:49 by T

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will drive renewal in Europe by supporting renewed growth rates of 1.5% with a boost in economic activity worth €800M! That’s one narrative, the other is that TTIP will undermine our democracy while driving environmental and food safety standards downwards and undermine progress for climate justice. Is it possible that it will do both?

This process has the potential to be a major game-changer for the coming decades, who will benefit, will there be losers and how will all this impact on us in both the Global North and Global South?

Come and join the discussion at the Comhlámh at the #firstweddebates

#firstwedsdebates: The TTIP Deal.

05.11.2014
7pm
Twisted Pepper
54 Middle Abbey St, Dublin 1

The moderator on the night will be:

Noel Whelan, a barrister, author, political analyst and columnist with The Irish Times.

Barry Finnegan, is lecturer and Senior Course Tutor at the Faculty of Journalism & Media Communications in Griffith College Dublin. Barry’s areas of specialization are in investigative journalism, and civil society / social movement theory, as well as the international trade negotiation implications of European Union treaties. He is currently compiling the 2014 Griffith Book of Investigative Journalism (Vol. 5) and researching a PhD proposal around Irish civil society’s responses to the processes of globalisation in a European context.

Mark Redmond was appointed Chief Executive of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland in March 2014. The American Chamber is the leading international business organisation in Ireland representing the 700 US companies located in Ireland its mission is to be the voice of US companies and position Ireland as the global location of choice for US investment.

Further panelists to be confirmed

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UPDATE

Additional Related Links

• Peoples News issue No. 110 Date: 21/09/14 from People's Movement. See pg 11. Norwegian Consumer Council fears poorer consumer protection with TTIP. Randi Flesland of the Norwegian Consumer Council has added his voice to warnings that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could lead to reduced protection for Norwegian and European consumers
  
• Peoples News issue no. 108 Date: 08/08/14 from People's Movement. See pg 1 Could Ireland veto Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership?
  
• PEOPLES NEWS issue no. 100 Date: 03/0314 from People's Movement. See page 14: Secrets of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks still secret Teagasc still advising farmers to use chemical linked to breast cancer
  
• EU-US competitiveness pact: time for action!
  
• Wikileaks Publishes Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
  
• ‘Transatlantic Partnership’ intended to duplicate secret Trans-Pacific Partnership
  
• http://stopTTIP.net/ - Stop TTIP Campaign
• https://stop-ttip.org/
  
• Stop the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership