Debate
Alternative Trade Mandate Discussion
On February 2nd we wish to give the floor to the composers of the Alternative Trade Mandate and 2 other experts to talk about the Alternative Trade Mandate and how it could inspire us a trade agreement that goes contributes to the democratic sovereignty of the people, rather than that it intervenes in it.
What is economy? What is Trade?
What should be its function in society and how should it be regulated?
These are questions that we wish to wrap our heads around on February 2nd 2017. The questions will be the focus of the ‘Trade: time for a new vision, The debate beyond TTIP’ event.
At this event we will not only be introducing the Alternative Trade Mandate as an alternative vision to trade agreements as they are currently crafted, we will also be searching together for viable alternatives to the current economic system.
This is a system that has had a severe economic crisis in 2008 for which the underlying reasons never have been properly addressed.
Instead of that we find ourselves confronted with international trade agreements, such as TTIP, CETA and TiSA, that aim to take away democratic power of the people. Trade agreements that appear to us lock-in an economic system that is not well-equipped to be transformed into the kind of sustainable economy that we will need in the future and that we are constructing today.
Fortunately there are voices out there that aim to question the very status quo and that are developing new ways of organizing the economy and that have put forward a vision for a kind of trade agreement that would truly be in the interest of us all.
They have done so under the name of the Alternative Trade Mandate. In this vision one can find a selection of proposals concerning how trade agreements could alternatively be composed with regards to Human Rights, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law and more. They composed this vision to stir debate and to help us to find inspiration about how things could be otherwise, how trade could be more in line with what is needed right now.
What should be its function in society and how should it be regulated?
These are questions that we wish to wrap our heads around on February 2nd 2017. The questions will be the focus of the ‘Trade: time for a new vision, The debate beyond TTIP’ event.
At this event we will not only be introducing the Alternative Trade Mandate as an alternative vision to trade agreements as they are currently crafted, we will also be searching together for viable alternatives to the current economic system.
This is a system that has had a severe economic crisis in 2008 for which the underlying reasons never have been properly addressed.
Instead of that we find ourselves confronted with international trade agreements, such as TTIP, CETA and TiSA, that aim to take away democratic power of the people. Trade agreements that appear to us lock-in an economic system that is not well-equipped to be transformed into the kind of sustainable economy that we will need in the future and that we are constructing today.
Fortunately there are voices out there that aim to question the very status quo and that are developing new ways of organizing the economy and that have put forward a vision for a kind of trade agreement that would truly be in the interest of us all.
They have done so under the name of the Alternative Trade Mandate. In this vision one can find a selection of proposals concerning how trade agreements could alternatively be composed with regards to Human Rights, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law and more. They composed this vision to stir debate and to help us to find inspiration about how things could be otherwise, how trade could be more in line with what is needed right now.