TTIP: It’s Not About Trade!

With TTIP, not all is as it seems. Officials from the EU and US would have citizens believe the promotion of trade is the impetus behind free trade negotiations. But slashing already-low tariffs is hardly worth the effort. Instead, the real goal is the implementation of a new regulatory structure. The result: an international policing mechanism unlikely to have been approved via the normal political processes in each country. This is bad news for Europe.

• Primary Source

ESO: Key Source: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) http://www.europeansources.info/record/transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip/

ESO: Background information: Merkel: Calling off EU-US trade talks ‘not very helpful’ / Hollande to Obama: Let’s agree TTIP fast http://www.europeansources.info/record/merkel-calling-off-eu-us-trade-talks-not-very-helpful-hollande-to-obama-lets-agree-ttip-fast/

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