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Nach jahrelangem Stillstand oder nur geringfügigen Fortschritten haben die Bemühungen um ein transatlantisches Freihandelsabkommen in diesem Jahr Fahrt aufgenommen. Am Rande des G8-Gipfels kündigten Vertreter der Europäischen Union und der Vereinigten Staaten den Start der Gespräche über ein umfassende Transatlantische Handels- und Investmentpartnerschaft (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP) an. […]

Last month Future Challenges and the Internet and Society Collaboratory organized a kick-off workshop for the “Globalization and the Internet: Information, People, Goods” project in Berlin. Some 30 experts with various professional backgrounds came to a former supermarket in Berlin to form different working groups. Four working groups will discuss […]

Brazil was under almost 400 years of Portuguese influence, and only at the beginning of the 20th century did the country begin to form its own foreign policy. Most of its foreign policy was predicated on the North-South axis. However, with Lula as president in 2003, the country began not […]

Like many other structural policies, free trade agreements are a tool used by governments to achieve their objectives. Now tools can be used or misused, and in this case the tool is not being used to its fullest potential. Free Trade Agreements need to be handled with due care if they […]

It’s now official: TAFTA/TTIP is finally on the negotiation table with the potential to become solid transatlantic reality within the next two or three years. The extremely short timeframe of this joint endeavor might sound very ambitious. Yet both the EU and the US are eager to sign this far-reaching agreement […]