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The TAFTA | TTIP and Treatment Access: What does the Agreement Mean for Intellectual Property Rights over Essential Medicines?
Written by Future Challenges team
This article was written by Faisal I. Chaudhry | University of Pennsylvania Abstract: Issues surrounding patent protection for pharmaceuticals and access to essential medicines have long been a source of controversy in the context of multilateral trade agreements. Even as the battles that crystallized over anti-retroviral therapies for HIV/AIDS treatment and […]
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Revolution in Ukraine: a too far away spot for the average citizen?
Written by Oleg Shynkarenko
We had a regime of criminals that tremendously robbed the state budget and the private sector as well with the help of all three branches of power. Ukraine is on the brink of default, the average salary is 200 EUR a month, but those in power became billionaires in just […]
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Uganda: Enacting the Anti-Gay Law
Written by Mubatsi
On February 24, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that criminalizes homosexuality. Among other things, the law criminalizes sexual intercourse between same-sex partners, and a life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality. Under this law, failing or refusing to report acts of homosexuality in your house and neighbourhood is a punishable […]
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In between Curious Economics and l’exception culturelle: Implications of TAFTA | TTIP for the Cultural Sector
Written by Future Challenges team
This article was written by Markus A. Kirchschlager | Participating Expert at Internet & Society Collaboratory e.V. | markus.kirchschlager@collaboratory.de | @extraverbal Abstract: The special role played by the cultural sector in free trade agreements is as old as trade liberalization itself. Informed by current negotiations on a transatlantic free trade […]
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TAFTA | TTIP: No Thank You! That’s Not What a Transatlantic Partnership Means*
Written by Future Challenges team
This article was written by Alessa Hartmann (German Forum on Environment and Development) and published in the “Transatlantic Colossus“. Abstract: The elimination of tariffs and the harmonization of standards increases economic power and produces wealth for all – this is the fallacy the negotiations between the US and the EU on […]
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Romania: An urgent need for massive political transformation
Written by Corina Murafa
The article responds to the Secrets of Transformation multimedia series, a joint project of Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Deutsche Welle. On paper, the Romanian economy seems to be the star of the region, if not the child prodigy of the EU as a whole. According to the latest Eurostat reports released early in December 2013, […]
