IPS Project Director and Associate Fellow, Manuel Pérez-Rocha has been invited by United Left in the European Parliament to speak at the conference, “A Trade Policy to Serve the People; Our alternatives to free trade deals.”

9:00 – 13:00: Morning session Room 1G2
Introductory speech: “Why and how to build alternatives to FTAs such as TTIP and CETA”, by Jeronim Capaldo (UNCTAD)

Roundtable with people working on concrete alternatives and open debate:

Building together a systemic alternative to the FTAs :

Moderated by: Ethan Earle & Mónica Di Sisto (Fair Watch-Italy)

Roundtable with people working on concrete alternatives and open debate; Paul de Clerck, FoEE; Wawa Wang, Sustainable Energy- China; Tom Bauler, European Society for Ecological Economics; Petra Völkerer, AK Europa-Austria, Martin Burgos, CCC-Argentina; Manuel Pérez-Rocha, IPS-Washington; Africa Kiiza, SEATINI; Scott Sinclair, PA-Canada; Benny Kuruvilla, TNI-India; Petra Völkerer, Lea Auffret, BEUC, Tom Troonbeeckx, CSA Belgium; Carles Casajuana, Solidar; Claude Girod, Via Campesina; Brid Brenan, Binding Treaty campaign-Ireland; S2B, DGB, Tunisian farmer, Foodwatch and MEPs Helmut Scholz, Anne-Marie Mineur, Eleonora Forenza, Emmanuel Maurel, Kouloglou, Patrick Le Hyaric among others.

14:00 -16:00: Afternoon session (in English)
Workshop 1: Sovereignty, global values and international trade
Room P1C51

introduced by Manuel Pérez-Rocha, IPS – Washington and Petra Völkerer, AK-Austria (tbc), moderated by MEP Helmut Scholz

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