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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11046
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) finance

Finance Watch worries about lowest common denominator approach in TTIP

Brussels, 25/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - The Finance Watch organisation, which defends citizens' interests against the financial industry, is concerned about the benefits of increased trade with North America arising from including financial services in the free-trade agreement, TTIP, currently being negotiated by the EU and the United States.

In a press release, Thierry Philipponnat, Finance Watch's Secretary General, says that the aim of including financial services in the TTIP will...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) CONSUMERS: China still top of dangerous product list
(AE) CLIMATE: EU urged to respect report being finalised by IPCC experts
(AE) FOOD: Council divided over origin labelling for meats
(AE) FOOD: Slovenian initiative to promote honey in schools
(AE) AGRICULTURE: European rice sector struggling
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Commission wants to develop organic without weakening it
(AE) FISHERIES: TAC for sandeel reduced by 21% for 2014
(AE) DIGITAL: eHealth is getting better, but needs to be rolled out
(AE) DIGITAL: “Get Online Week” - digital skills are indispensable
(AE) INDUSTRY:
(AE) COHESION: Half of all partnership contracts still to be submitted
(AE) TRANSPORT: Council approves anti-noise contamination measures at airports
(AE) TRANSPORT: Exemplary urban transport in Rivas Vaciamadrid and Ljubljana
(AE) TRANSPORT:
(AE) SPACE:
(AE) JHA: Greens already highly critical of results of EU-United States summit
(AE) JHA/DATA: Facebook, Google and Twitter sued in France
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - SPORT - CULTURE
(AE) SOCIAL: Europe at halfway point of a lost decade
(AE) SPORT: Europeans are too sedentary says Eurobarometer
(AE) CULTURE: Council adopts decision on Capitals of Culture
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) ECB: Jens Weidmann refuses to rule out European quantitative easing
(AE) ECONOMY: Prague begins preparing to sign Budget Pact
(AE) FINANCE: Finance Watch worries about lowest common denominator approach in TTIP
(AE) ANTITRUST:
(AE) TAXATION: Europe's banks concerned about revised savings tax directive
(AE) STATE AID: Luxembourg to examine Commission's demands
(AE) MERGERS: Acquisition of FEIH given go-ahead
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) RUSSIA: G7 threatens further sanctions
(AE) SERBIA/KOSOVO:
(AE) EGYPT: EU shocked by death penalty for 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
(AE) CHINA: EESC wants appointment of special EU representative for Tibet
(AE) CHINA: Second round of negotiations for investment agreement
(AE) NEW ZEALAND: Free-trade negotiations being considered
(AE) CANADA: Political green light for strategic partnership agreement
(AE) MOROCCO: Parliamentary dialogue with EU in symbolic location
(AE) ALGERIA: Two European experts to observe 17 April elections
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Clarification regarding Gaza desalination project
(AE) SOUTHERN NEIGHBOURHOOD: Human rights activists sound the alarm
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) EP 2014: EPP in lead according to new poll
(AE) AUSTRIA: