3️⃣ Huawei is suing Sweden for protecting its 5G network on national security grounds, seeking ≈500M via #ISDS in a 🇨🇳🇸🇪 treaty. With 1000+ bilateral deals between 🇪🇺 & non-EU countries, most of which using #ISDS, Member States' right to regulate is at risk. The 🇪🇺 must act 10isdsstories.org/case/case-4/

2️⃣ Oil & gas giant Klesch group (registered in tax heaven Jersey btw) is suing 🇩🇰 + 🇩🇪 + 🇪🇺 to dodge the windfall tax on energy firms. While people struggled with soaring energy bills, they pocketed massive profits, and now use private courts #ISDS to avoid paying back 👉 10isdsstories.org/case/case-2/

Example 1️⃣ Sanctioned Russian oligarch Fridman is weaponising #ISDS to sue Luxembourg for freezing his assets, demanding a mind-blowing $16 billion payout. While war victims get nothing, ISDS protects war profiteers. Time to end this unjust system, don't you think? 10isdsstories.org/case/case-1/

🆕 stories show how old investment treaties still roll out the red carpet for investors to sue EU countries over sanctions against aggressive regimes, national security, climate laws, tax policies … This secretive #ISDS system puts profits above democracy. Read more 👉 10isdsstories.org #StopISDS

À Bruxelles pour la réunion annuelle, et les 25 ans, du réseau européen « trade justice » @eurtradejustice.bsky.social qui regroupe les ONG, associations, chercheurs critiques de la mondialisation telle qu’elle est mise en œuvre depuis des années par Bruxelles et les capitales de l’UE.

Be scared. Lord Mandelson is at the centre of a US-UK Tech deal ready to be signed next week.   MPs and the public know nothing about its contents, as the government has been even more secretive than Johnson’s on trade.   But we know enough to be very worried 🧵

Undemocratic, the #EUMercosur is toxic! We joined +40 civil society groups and farmers unions in braving the rain to make sure EU policymakers heard us loud and clear 📣 Why the adoption of the deal is a democratic hijack 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

@caneurope.org @eurtradejustice.bsky.social @attac.at ‬ @powershift.bsky.social @cncd.be‬ @greenpeace.eu @troca-plataforma.bsky.social @oxfam.be

Great piece by @ftm.eu exposing how private tribunals, skewed in the industry’s favour, undermine climate action across the EU and beyond. And it doesn't stop there: these corporate lawsuits are violating EU sanction policies & undercutting national security decisions. More on this soon 👀

🍽️ What’s on your plate? With the EU-Mercosur trade deal, it will be banned pesticides, burning Amazon and climate destruction. ❌ Say NO to this dinner disaster! stopeumercosur.org/take-action/ #StopEUMercosur

Last year, the UK's high court ruled against a new coal mine going ahead, on the grounds that climate impacts must be taken into account - the emissions from burning the coal extracted had not been considered. It was a victory for local groups who campaigned against it and the environment

"We’ve been calling on the government to scrap ISDS in its trade deals for years, to stop exactly this eventuality: fossil fuel companies suing us over necessary climate action." - Our campaigner @cleodierickard.bsky.social quoted in @theguardian.com 👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Trade must not come at the expense of peoples’ rights & international law’ At the EU Parliament, Rasha Abu Dayyeh (PENGON Friends of the Earth Palestine) urged action: suspend trade and cooperation with companies and institutions complicit of the on-going genocide in Gaza.

We are calling on EU Member States and the EU @kajakallas.bsky.social to Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement without delay! europeantradejustice.org/open-letter-... Now is the time for immediate suspension. Anything less is complicity.

Ahead of tomorrow’s Foreign Affairs Council, the @eurtradejustice.bsky.social sent a letter to EU Vice-President Kaja Kallas, calling for the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement. Anything less is complicity. Act now. friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...

🚨 Urgent call to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement and end trade and cooperation with Israel, in light of the continuing genocide in Gaza and Israel’s long-standing violations of international law. Read it here 👉 europeantradejustice.org/open-letter-... @eurtradejustice.bsky.social

⌛️ We have a few months left to block the ratification of the toxic EU-Mercosur trade deal. 📣 Let's build pressure in all EU countries to tell our policy-makers #StopEUMercosur. Organise your own action locally with help from our mobilisation kit 👉 stopeumercosur.org/take-action/

MEPs will be in Strasbourg this week to discuss the EU-South Africa #CTIP and what it means for #greenhydrogen and the impact on local communities. This op-ed from campaigner @belenbalanya.bsky.social and @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley is essential reading for every MEP taking part.

Over 65 civil society organisations from Asia-Pacific countries that signed into #RCEP trade agreement have call upon their governments to continue to exclude Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) from the agreement www.bilaterals.org/?civil-socie...

Beim EU-Gipfeltreffen vergangene Woche wurde sich nicht auf die Aussetzung des Assoziierungsabkommens mit Israel geeinigt. Insbesondere Österreich und Deutschland blockieren die Entscheidung. Unser gemesinames Statement mit der European Trade Justice Coalition dazu: www.attac.at/news/details...

Investor-State Dispute Settlement lets companies run away from the harm they cause and blocks a just fossil fuels phase-out. ⛔️ It allows foreign investors to sue governments when their actions are alleged to harm their investment. Here's a stark example of why governments must dismantle it: 🧵👇

❌ No trade with war criminals. With the European Trade Justice Coalition, we ask for the suspension of the #EUIsrael Association Agreement. Time for action is now 👇 friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/... #NoAssociationWithGenocide @eurtradejustice.bsky.social

@unctad.bsky.social’s World Investment Report 2025 is out, detailing a welcome and gradual move away from investor-state arbitration in new investment treaties, with no #ISDS provisions in 45 per cent of treaties concluded 2020-2024. 👉 unctad.org/publication/... 1/3

Mit einer Auftaktaktion zu einer neuen europaweiten Kampagne protestierten heute Organisationen des Netzwerks Gerechter Welthandel – darunter Attac – gegen das geplante Handelsabkommen zwischen der EU und den Mercosur-Staaten. #EUMercosur

⌛️Time’s pressing to reject the ratification of the toxic #EUMercosur trade deal. 📩 Email your trade minister and members of the European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu to ask them to vote NO to the deal 👉 stopeumercosur.org/take-action/ #StopEUMercosur @caneurope.org @eurtradejustice.bsky.social

European consumers & farmers are left behind while corporations profit from toxic trade. This morning we were outside the European Parliament to demand decision makers: ❌ To reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal ❌ To ban the export of pesticides banned in the EU #StopEUMercosur #EndToxicTrade

Wir protestieren vor dem Wirtschaftsministerium im Rahmen der #stopEUMercosur Aktionstage ! Österreichs Nein zum giftigen EU-Mercosur-Abkommen wackelt. Mehr Umweltzerstörung, Ungleichheit und Ausbeutung drohen. Schreib direkt an Wirtschaftsminister Hattmannsdorfer -> www.attac.at/kampagnen/ko...

Stop toxic trade. Pesticides banned in Europa should not be exported to other countries. Toxic here = toxic there. Today 600+ organisations from all over the globe call on the EU to stop this violation of human rights.

Suspend the #EUIsrael Deal @kajakallas.bsky.social - Complicity takes many forms. Trade deals with war criminals is one of them. You can still choose justice. #SuspendTheDeal #NoAssociationWithGenocide!

"...like standing in front of a burning building and asking for a review of whether there’s a fire.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement now! @kajakallas.bsky.social

.."this production will be done on our heads, on our bodies, at the expense of our rivers and the forest" - Alessandra Korap, spokesperson for the Amazonian munduruku people #stopEUMercosur www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... @apiboficial.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @foeeurope.bsky.social @caneurope.org

📣 European Coordination Via Campesina denounces the use of starvation as a weapon of genocide against Palestinian people and complicity of Europe 👉 www.eurovia.org/press-releas...

" the EU retains such a deep-rooted “colonial attitude of superiority that it translates into a sort of patronising charity and altruism”."

Today is International Day of #PeasantStruggles. An important day to remind everyone why farmers on both sides of the Atlantic are rising up against the #EUMercosur trade deal and why you should also say NO to this toxic deal 🧵👇 #17April #StopEUMercosur @eurovia.org @eurtradejustice.bsky.social

⚖️ New legal analysis slams #EUMercosur trade deal. If ratified, it will increase EU’s climate impacts due to increase in trade of high-emission products. 🌳 Further, the deal risks weakening EU's deforestation regulation, while the EU Green Deal commitments are already under attack! #StopEUmercosur

Love to see it - new pieces joining in our longstanding condemnation of #ISDS. Time for governments to take note - if they can #ExitECT they can and stop including, remove ISDS, and withdraw from treaties that include it for good #StopISDS

The EU needs more equal, fair trade partnerships, based on solidarity and cooperation. Not deals that rest on exploitation, extractivism & resource grabs. 120+ groups from Europe & Indonesia alert on the 🇮🇩-🇪🇺 #CEPA's threats to climate, workers & human rights 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

As negotiators rush to finalise the EU-Indonesia #CEPA, 120+ groups warn it will fail the environment, climate, women, Indigenous Peoples, workers, small farmers & fisherfolk. Our collective demands for trade in the public interest 👉 europeantradejustice.org/120-groups-f...

#StopEUMercosur #StopUEMercosur @eurovia.org @eurtradejustice.bsky.social @stopcetamercosur.bsky.social @maximecombes.bsky.social @confpaysanne.bsky.social

There is an element of this analysis I agree with. We do need to rework the trade system so it encourages balance. Keynes proposed exactly that in the 40s. The US trounced it. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

"Trump’s go-to playbook is to bully our neighbors through tariffs and to scapegoat immigrants" Statement by our allies in the US, @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.citizen.org/news/weaponi...

Tariffs are neither the work of the devil nor of the angels. They’re a policy tool that can be useful or not depending on how they’re used. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rosebank and Jackdaw oilfields decision ruled unlawful by Scottish court - Court says UK government go-ahead does not take into account carbon emissions #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is some bombshell, scandelous, spy-novel-esque news in the climate space: It’s alledged that a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil engaged in hacking and targeting 128 climate activists and/or environmental organizations involved in climate ligation to discredit those individuals/groups.

Farmers & consumers are often presented as at odds but in reality both want resilient, sustainable farms that can support decent jobs and produce safe good food. But trade deals can undermine that www.youtube.com/watch?v=29OC... European Parliament's agriculture committee debates EU-Mercosur today

📢 Together with 39 NGOs and unions we call on the EU to resist Big Tech's bullying. Big Tech is weaponising the Trump administration to get rid of EU antitrust rules and tech regulations. The EU should not let them. 👉 edri.org/wp-content/u... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"Investor state dispute settlement has been described as a form of modern day colonialism." The UK-Colombia treaty came under fire in the House of Lords last week 👇

Trade agreements must not be allowed to act as a bypass for proper assessments of deforestation ETJC is among the 40 signatories to this open letter #EU-Mercosur #EU-Indonesia #EUDR #tradejustice

Open letter by over 260 NGOs and trade unions warns that the EU Commission's focus on competitiveness through 'simplification' will lead to #deregulation and weakening of vital EU social and environmental protections 🚨 #RulesToProtect ➡️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/j...

⚖️ Food safety, public health, workers’ rights, animal welfare and environmental protections are the backbone of a fair and resilient society. 270+ orgs urge @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to uphold #RulesToProtect people, nature & democracy 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...