Trade

Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered a long-overdue discussion on the downsides of international trade. What is the green response?

While green tech promises to save the planet through connectivity, the digital economy’s material demands are increasingly unsustainable.

International trade currently creates huge environmental damage and ‘ecological debt’ from certain countries to others. How can this be remedied?

One year on from the Brexit vote, Britain’s new role in the world, and in Europe, is taking shape – what will it look like?

Although the reality is often forgotten behind the acronym, the four letters of TTIP represent a huge transatlantic free trade agreement. How can such a complex issue as a free trade agreement bring out the masses?

Victory seems to be in sight for the movement against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

As the TTIP negotiations between the EU and US continue, another equally sinister force is currently under construction: the Environmental Goods Act (EGA). Both are conducted in secret, and we should not allow the controversy of the former to distract us too much from the great greenwash of the latter.

TTIP has become notorious over recent years. From Brussels to Berlin, Warsaw to Barcelona, more people know what these four letters stand for today more than ever before.

MEP Sven Giegold looks back at 2015 and some of the key Green political fights on the European scene. He sheds light on what he thinks will be the 2016 key battlefields for the Greens and for Europe to survive nationalisms and populisms.

For Americans, much more so than for Europeans, security trumps freedom. The NSA is beyond the control of the President and of Congress; and the US, in the role of the benevolent protector, imposes its own ethical standards onto its allies in order to extract both economic profits and strategic political information. These differences between the US and Europe do not call into question the continued viability of NATO, but they do, however, negate both the desirability and the feasibility of forming a “Transatlantic Internal Market”.