I was attending as a panel member at the EU high level conference on “Modern Biotechnology in Agriculture – Paving […]
Reporting back on the ‘Modern Biotechnology in Agriculture’ conference
Making ‘open trade’ and the global market work for EU consumers
“Open trade must go hand in hand with open policy making,” Jean-Claude Juncker said in his annual State of the […]
Urgent Care: Preventing Human Resistance to Antibiotics
Last month, the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) hosted an event on Consumer Health and Antimicrobial Resistance in Washington DC. In this […]
How to achieve coherence between trade and public health in TTIP?
In order to understand the link between trade policy and public health, we have to take into account that trade […]
Does CETA live up to the SDGs?
The European Commission has championed the inclusion of sustainable development chapters in its trade agreements, including […]
A food policy worthy of the name: are healthy food and trade compatible?
Diet is the foremost risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs): the average European consumes too much sugar, too much saturated […]
Let’s Move Away from a Fossilised Vision of the Consumer Benefits of Trade
Last week, consumer groups in the EU and US met in Washington DC for the 17th TACD Annual Meeting. In […]
Will regulatory cooperation in TTIP become a straight-jacket for EU law making?
Regulatory cooperation might sound like a relatively benign and straightforward part of trade agreements. It is actually at the very […]