Public services under attack. TTIP, CETA, and the secretive sollusion between business lobbyists and trade negotiators
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2015
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Table of contents
- Executive summary
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dangerous liaisons: business, services, and trade
- 2.1 A brief history of services lobbying: the birth of GATS and ESF
- 2.2 Brothers in arms: the EU negotiators soliciting corporate lobbying
- 2.3 Systemic collusion: DG Trade’s calls for support
- 3. Business wish-list for Europe´s public services
- 3.1 Public services: everything must go!
- 3.2 Dismantling public health
- 3.3 Competitive tendering: bidding for health contracts
- 3.4 Financial industry: a major player in services liberalisation
- 3.5 Procurement: attack on public utilities
- 3.6 Public Private Partnerships: profiting from austerity
- 3.7 Post: eroding universal service
- 3.8 Hollywood: fighting the cultural exception
- 3.9 Future proofing TTIP: digital trade in public services
- 3.10 Locking in privatisation
- 3.11 Protecting investment – endangering welfare
- 4. Rolling out the red carpet: how the EU bows to corporate demands
- 4.1 An ESF win: privatising everything but the kitchen sink?
- 4.2 Pleasing BusinessEurope: negotiating PPPs
- 4.3 Standstill: no backtracking from postal services liberalisation
- 4.4 Water utilities unprotected
- 4.5 Energy services: blocking policy space
- 4.6 On the rise: privately funded services
- 4.7 TNCs and the commodification of education
- 4.8 NHS: the sell-off of public health
- 4.9 Audiovisual services: nixing an exemption
- 4.10 Cashing in: the financialisation of social services
- 4.11 ISDS: defending a corporate privilege
- 4.12 Private tribunals adjudicating on public services
- 5. Conclusion: democracy and social justice, not trade deals threatening public services