by George Thurley | Sep 30, 2020 | Climate Emergency & EU Green Deal, Trade for health | Latest Developments
It has been more than fifteen months since agreement in principle was reached on the controversial EU-Mercosur trade agreement, and yet ratification hasn’t even begun. So what’s going on? Officially the Association Agreement is being ‘scrubbed’ and translated...
by George Thurley | Jul 30, 2019 | Trade for health | Analysis & Opinion
On Friday 28th June, the European Commission reached political agreement on a trade deal with the South American Mercado Commun del Sur, known as Mercosur, which includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Although EU leaders have hailed the deal as a powerful...
by George Thurley | Sep 27, 2018 | Brexit, Trade for health | Strategic Documents
Trade, investment and public health An EPHA guide and risk assessment tool This document is intended for public health professionals, as an introduction to trade and investment policy and its relevance to public health. It also offers a tool for public health...
by George Thurley | Sep 3, 2018 | Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Trade for health | Analysis & Opinion
Everyone seems to be talking about trade. Normally a niche issue relegated to newspapers’ financial pages, it has been catapulted back to the top of the political agenda by a combination of President Trump’s zero-sum trade war, supposedly targeting China, but also...
by George Thurley | May 17, 2018 | Trade for health | Latest Developments
Brussels, 17 May 2018 The European Public Health Alliance, along with Latin American and global partners, has written today to the EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and First Vice-President Frans Timmermans to put health ahead of the interests of the tobacco...
