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Amid record high forest fires, 🇪🇺EU politicians are negotiating the conclusion of the #EUMercosur deal in Brasilia 🇧🇷this week. A deal that will boost trade in agricultural products that are actually the drivers of these forest fires 🔥. #StopEUmercosur

Today #EUMercosur deal enters provisional application. A NEW economic study by former UNCTAD economists, challenges the economic case behind the deal. Conclusion: with real-world economic dynamics, projected GDP gains disappear & may even turn negative. caneurope.org/app/uploads/20…

@GenderandTrade Hi, I can’t find the link on your Youtube channel. Thanks for sharing it here.

What does trade have to do with war & conflict? In our latest event, Nela Porobić Isaković (Feminist Anti-Militarist Collective) analyzes how trade can be a tool for exploitation – or for mutual aid & solidarity – in (post)conflict contexts. Full video on our YouTube channel.

Congratulation to @petrogustavo President of Colombia, for his leadership in announcing Colombia’s move away from the biased investment arbitration regime. Great opportunity for other countries to follow suit, at the upcoming Conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels.

The entirety of the NATO bloc abstained on a resolution — opposed only by the US, Israel and Argentina — declaring the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans on racial grounds “the gravest crime against humanity.”

220 economists & legal scholars have signed a letter calling on #Colombia Pres @PetroGustavo to seize the moment at #ColombiaSinFosiles2026 by scaling back investor-state dispute settlement, #ISDS, a key barrier to climate action. Read the letter: bit.ly/GDP-ISDS

Vamos a darle una repasada a las 6 perlas más importantes del "Tratado EEUU - Ecuador", firmado por Noboa y ratificado por su grupete de impresentables en la Asamblea Nacional: 1. Alineación obligatoria con restricciones de seguridad nacional de EE.UU. (Artículo 5.1.1 – página 7) “When the United States imposes a customs duty, quota, prohibition, fee, charge, or other import restriction… Ecuador shall regulate… measures having a similar effect…” O SEA: Ecuador queda obligado a copiar automáticamente las sanciones, aranceles o prohibiciones que imponga EE.UU. Por ejemplo, contra China o Rusia! Nosotros poniendo sanciones, solo porque los gringos lo dicen! ¿Qué pasará cuando Rusia o China (o cualquier otro país) devuelvan las sanciones? ¿A dónde irán nuestras flores, solo por citar un ejemplo? ¿Se dan cuenta la barbaridad que firmó el idiota? sigue 🧵

The woman who created International Women's Day, Clara Zetkin, was a loud, proud and fierce anti-militarist activist. She would absolutely demolish you clowns for perverting feminism into this grotesque tank-riding Barbie montage. You can't take March 8 from us.

Next time you come across the Brussels outlet @Euractiv, this is their editor-in-chief - calling Pedro Sanchez a knee-jerk antisemite for saying that one can be both against the hateful Iranian regime and against an illegal military intervention

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits. So, who stands to win? Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

It has been 24 years since Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, allowed anti-Muslim pogroms to proceed uninhibited. More than one thousand people were slaughtered. trib.al/ZfEJ3u8

Ante la próxima revisión del T-MEC, la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum propuso replantear el esquema de arbitraje internacional para impedir que sea utilizado como mecanismo de presión económica contra los gobiernos 👉🏽bilaterals.org/?tras-auge-de-…

Brazil’s 🇧🇷largest Indigenous network #APIB has issued a powerful statement against the #EUMercosur trade deal. Their messages is clear: There is no legitimacy in a deal that was negotiated 25 years without consulation of indigenous peoples. 👉🏾lnkd.in/dQEyqNXe

🔴Attacks on the independence of a UN mandate held by Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs and breach of France's international obligations: JURDI files a complaint with the Public Prosecutor for the dissemination of fake news🔴 Our press release 👇

@Antonio_Tajani Certo, Ministro. Neanche io mi riconosco nelle posizioni di un governo il cui Ministro degli Affari Esteri afferma che "il diritto vale fino a un certo punto". La differenza è che io resto disponibile al confronto nel rispetto dell’organismo di pace e garanzia al quale appartengo

A reminder that you were elected to the French parliament, not the Israeli Knesset. Perhaps you should consider representing the interests of the French people, rather than slandering an honorable human rights defender on behalf of an oppressive foreign regime that practices apartheid and is perpetrating a genocide. You have no moral standing to criticize the courageous, principled, and globally respected UN rapporteur @FranceskAlbs, with whom all decent people stand in solidarity.

@CarolineYADAN @ConstanceLeGrip @priscathevenot @charlesrodwell_ @SylvainMaillard @JoMissoffe @Laure_Miller @LaurentMazaury @KlinkertBrigitt @sandrogozi @guillaumekasba Les parlementaires méritent un grand respect, car ils tiennent leur mandat du peuple. Indépendamment de vos attaques personnelles et du mépris affiché envers moi, je vous invite, Madame Yadan, à produire une seule citation où j’aurais qualifié Israël «d’ennemi de l’humanité ».

Concerned that FTA may cut access to medicines in India, rest of the developing world: Médecins Sans Frontières writes to EU - The Hindu share.google/nOYK2TdrRdQN4E…

Más de 40 organizaciones publicamos una solicitada en @tiempoarg para pedir que el Congreso rechace el Acuerdo UE–Mercosur. ‼️No hay desarrollo posible con más extractivismo, dependencia y pérdida de soberanía. Declaración completa: argentinasintlc.org/2026/01/29/el-…

❌ Barrier to a climate just future 🔒 Colonial-era system cloaked in secrecy ⛔ Regulatory chill 👔 Exclusive privileges to multinational corporations Read our new report, #ISDS vs. The Climate 👇🏾 caneurope.org/isds-vs-the-cl…

One of the grossest things I’ve ever seen tbh