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TISA versus Public Services

by Public Services International Sunday, Sep. 14, 2014 at 4:29 PM
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Public Services International published a 28-page report "TISA versus Public Services" on April 28, 2014.

to read the 28-page PSI Special Report "TISA versus Public Services" published on April 28, 2014, click on

http://www.world-psi.org/sites/default/files/documents/research/en_tisar...

A new report by Public Services International (PSI) warns that governments are planning to take the world on a liberalisation spree on a scale never seen before. According to the report, this massive trade deal will put public healthcare, broadcasting, water, transport and other services at risk. The proposed deal could make it impossible for future governments to restore public services to public control, even in cases where private service delivery has failed. It would also restrict a government’s ability to regulate key sectors including financial, energy, telecommunications and cross-border data flows.

Treating public services as commodities for trade creates a fundamental misconception of public services. The Trades in Services Agreement (TISA), currently being negotiated in secret and outside of World Trade Organization rules, is a deliberate attempt to privilege the profits of the richest corporations and countries in the world over those who have the greatest needs.

Public services are designed to provide vital social and economic necessities – such as health care and education – affordably, universally and on the basis of need. Public services exist because markets will not produce these outcomes. Further, public services are fundamental to ensure fair competition for business, and effective regulation to avoid environmental, social and economic disasters – such as the global financial crisis and global warming. Trade agreements consciously promote commercialisation and define goods and services in terms of their ability to be exploited for profit by global corporations. Even the most ardent supporters of trade agreements admit that there are winners and losers in this rigged game.

The winners are usually powerful countries who are able to assert their power, multinational corporations who are best placed to exploit new access to markets, and wealthy consumers who can afford expensive foreign imports. The losers tend to be workers who face job losses and downward pressure on wages, users of public services and local small businesses which cannot compete with multinational corporations.

The report on TISA was prepared for Public Services International, written by Scott Sinclair, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University.

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10 reasons to oppose investors' super-rights in EU trade deals

by Corporate Europe Observatory Sunday, Sep. 14, 2014 at 10:21 PM
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to read the 16-page statement "10 reasons to oppose investors' super-rights" published on April 16, 2014, click on

http://corporateeurope.org/print/1802

Still not loving ISDS: 10 reasons to oppose investors’ super-rights in EU trade deals International trade

At the end of March, the European Commission launched a public consultation over its plan to enshrine far-reaching rights for foreign investors in the EU-US trade deal currently being negotiated. In the face of fierce opposition to these investor super-rights, the Commission is trying to convince the public that these do not endanger democracy and public policy.

more at www.alternativetrademandate.org and www.citizen.org

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