Press & Media
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Press Releases & Open Letters
G20 must finally take steps towards a sustainable financial system
WEED calls for the shrinking of major banks and opposes public-private partnerships as a development model for Africa.
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TTIP Threatens Financial Market Regulation
52 organisations criticise the negotiations within the framework of the EU-US agreement on financial markets in an open letter
Speculation makes food unaffordable - You don't gamble with food!
WEED and other organisations are calling on politicians to take action. The occasion is consultations at EU level.
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European Parliament adopts regulation to shed light on shady derivatives markets
New rules take crucial steps to tackle food speculation
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European Commission’s proposal for financial markets lacks teeth
NGOs critizise the Commission's proposals for a revision of MiFID and the new Regulation MiFIR: More robust rules needed to tackle food speculation
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NGOs welcome EP vote as a first step to tackle excessive food speculation
Today's vote in the ECON committee of the European Parliament has brought some progress in regulating commodity derivatives markets.
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The EU Commission launched the Communication "Trade, Growth and World Affairs. Trade Policy as a core component of the EU's 2020 strategy”
After the failure of the "Global Europe Strategy”, the new EU's 2020 trade strategy will reinforce the policies responsible for the economic, social and environmental crises.
No World Bank Funding for Climate Change and Poverty
At the IDA replenishment meeting in Berlin, a broad coalition of environmental and development NGOs protests the harmful policy on energy and economic conditionalities of the World Bank.
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Lisbon summit 'betraying Africa'
Representatives of civil society from Africa and Europe meeting alongside the EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon, Portugal have released the following statement: