The EU Corporate Trade Agenda: a Seattle to Brussels report

28 November, 2005

"Stop the EU Corporate Trade Agenda" - this is the slogan of a joint European campaign to expose the anti-development and anti-environment agenda of the EU in the WTO negotitions. The slogan addresses both the Transnational Corporations as the true beneficiaries of trade liberalisation and as influential policy makers in the EU trade policy, but also the EU and its trade agenda, which has a strong bias towards corporate interests. With a focus on the three most relevant and most controversial issues at the end of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations - services, agriculture and NAMA - the new Seattle to Brussels report sheds light on the role of European Transnational corporations