The EU´s Council Working Group on copyright has succeeded in blocking progress toward swift EU ratification of the global right-to-read Marrakesh Treaty that seeks to benefit millions of blind and other visually impaired people around the world. Quick ratification had…
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¿Regulatory Cooperation or Regulatory Co-optation?
Questions asked to top EU and US negotiators Ignacio Bercero and Dan Mullaney at TTIP stakeholders event on February 4th, 2014 Is it smart? Is it fair and balanced? Will it chill future legislation in the EU? Can so…
One reason why Syriza won: the access to medicines crisis
by Yannis Natsis, TACD advocacy officer Is there an access to medicines crisis in Greece? Yes, and if nothing changes radically, the worst is yet to come!! This rather pessimistic note summarizes the state of public health in crisis-hit Greece…
Spanish Hepatitis C Patients Petition European Parliament
Petition to the European Parliament “For a European Plan for against Hepatitis C” presented by “Plataforma de Afectados por la Hepatitis C”(Spain) Mario Cortes Morales, Spanish citizen, in representation of the “Plataforma de afectados por la Hepatitis C”…
Five poor excuses used to block EU Ratification Marrakesh Treaty
The Marrakesh Treaty was agreed in June, 2013. Now we are well into 2015 and the EU still has no plan on how to ratify the Treaty. While many other countries have either ratified or, at least, made progress…
High priced hepatitis C treatments spark massive public outcry and political debate in Spain
In one of the the largest public health marches in Europe in decades thousands of hepatitis C patients and public health defenders marched through the streets of Madrid last Saturday to demand “treatments for all”. http://www.cuartopoder.es/invitados/2015/01/10/en-directo-marcha-moncloa-en-apoyo-de-los-afectados-por-la-hepatitis-c/4171 The…
Marrakesh Ratification: Written question by 19 MEPs to the Council of the European Union
On October 21th 2014, the European Commission proposed the ratification, on behalf of the EU, of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled. The ratification by 20…
Scary Broacasting Treaty: short oral statement at WIPO
Thank you very much.The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue is concerned about the discussion on this treaty. Whereas in the past, due to the lack of definitions, we called it an unidentified flying object, now, as the definitions get a bit clearer,…
Blind persons push for EU Marrakesh Treaty ratification: frustration as EU member states block process
At an event yesterday at the European Parliament blind persons organizations expressed their frustration at the lack of progress toward EU ratification of the global right-to-read Treaty of Marrakesh. The meeting was organized by the European Blind Union, the…
Film Screening: “The Internet´s own boy”
TACD is pleased to invite you to a film screening of “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” on 1 December 2014 at 6:30 pm in the European Parliament. Aaron Swartz represented the best and the brightest of…