by George Thurley | Jan 6, 2021 | Trade for health | Latest Developments
EPHA recently participated in a consultation process conducted by DG Trade, focusing on how the Commission department can improve how it reaches and listens to CSOs in Brussels and across the EU Member States. In answering the questions posed, a number of points...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 26, 2020 | Trade for health | Latest Developments
Mr Valdis DombrovskisExecutive Vice President Commissioner for Trade European CommissionBrussels 22 October 2020Subject: The urgent need to renew the free trade agreement expert group.Dear Executive Vice President Dombrovskis,In our capacity as former members of the...
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 European Public Health Alliance | Sep 16, 2020 | Sustainable Development Goals, Tobacco, Trade for health | Latest Developments
As part of the global tobacco industry watchdog STOP, whose partners include the University of Bath, the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, The Union, and Vital Strategies, along with Corporate Europe Observatory, the European Public Health Alliance...
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 15, 2020 | Trade for health | Latest Developments
The European Public Health Alliance is seriously concerned at how little attention has been paid to health by the European Commission in the consultation on future EU trade policy. The ‘A renewed trade policy for a stronger Europe’ consultation document ...
by European Public Health Alliance | May 31, 2019 | Trade for health | Latest Developments
George Thurley, Alternate public health member of the European Commission Expert Group on EU Trade Agreements On the 30th April, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the EU’s Investment Court System (ICS), as included in the EU trade deal with Canada...
