Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership
- https://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2014/07/ttip-lose-lose-deal-food-and-farming
- https://theecologist.org/2014/feb/27/no-rubber-stamp-ttip
TTIP: why it's nothing to do with 'free trade' but all about deregulation of controversial and risky products like GMOs, tobacco, and hormone-treated meat; why it won't boost our economies; and how politicians know that much of what we're being told about the supposed benefits of TTIP is a lie. If TTIP is adopted, a million jobs in the US and EU combined will be lost, 600,000 of them in the EU; Europe will lose exports; the precautionary principle as the basis of European regulation would be trashed, along with food safety rules, labour rights, and the European social model; and corporations will be able to sue national and regional governments (i.e. the taxpayer) in secret courts for daring to regulate their products. From War on Want, https://www.gmwatch.org/en/videos/corporate-takeover-videos/15852-what-s-the-problem-with-ttip
Articles
- Feb.17.2016: Meet the corporations lobbying the hardest for TTIP and ending democracy. Which businesses are pushing most for the proposed EU-US trade deal TTIP? And who is really influencing EU negotiators? And just how are the rights of European citizens represented in the biggest trade deal in history? The 30,000 corporate lobbyists entrenched in Brussels are left in the shade when it comes to the power being afforded to corporations in the TTIP negotiations. The US Chamber of Commerce, DigitalEurope, Apple, Blackberry, IBM, Microsoft, BusinessEurope, Transatlantic Business Council, ACEA, CEFIC, BASF, Bayer, Dow, European Services Forum, Deutsche Bank, Telefónica, TheCityUK, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Astra Zeneca, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, FoodDrinkEurope, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Unilever, PhRMA, American Chemical Council, Levi Jeans, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Dow, Google, General Electric, MEDEF, CropLife America, Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA), Policy and Public Affairs team at TheCityUK, Monsanto, StopTTIP. True Publica, Graham Vanbergen
- Oct.15.2015: TTIP: EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström denies saying she does not take her mandate from the European people. John Hilary accused Ms Malmström of saying she does not take her mandate from the European people. Lee Williams, Kashmira Gander, The Independent.
- Aug.08.2015: Fight the Trade Deals or lose our NHS and public services for good. Whatever politicians and corporate lobbyists tell us, our public services and the NHS are absolutely under threat from the EU-US trade deal (TTIP), the EU-Canadian trade deal (CETA) and the even more secret Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). We are in danger of losing any control. These deals bind in future govts, under international law, and are intended to be irreversible. In other words, they supersede the democratic decisions of national govts, both now and in the future. syzygysue, Think Left.
- Mar.18.2015: Proposed TTIP Agreement Is Profoundly Undemocratic. Executive director of London-based juman rights and anti-poverty organization War on Want John Hilary discusses the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which is currently being negotiated in secret between the European Union and the United States, and the potential adverse impacts of this agreement on the economy, employment, corporate regulation and the environment. Michael Nevradakis, Truth Out.
- Feb.27.2015: TTIP: Leaked text analysis by John Hilary, War on Want. This week leaked documents published by the BBC show that our NHS hasn’t been taken out of TTIP – the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership. Unless our health services are fully excluded from TTIP there’s a huge risk of further privatisation of our health services as US corporations try to profit from our NHS. Megan Bentall, 38Degrees.
- Aug.01.2014: TTIP: Wheels come off trade deal. The wheels are coming off the TTIP bandwagon. TTIP threatens to be the greatest transfer of power to transnational capital in a generation. The economic claims made for TTIP – including the absurd idea that every European family will miraculously find themselves €545 a year better off – have been rubbished even by pro-free trade commentators such as Professor Jagdish Bhagwati. The EU’s own impact assessment estimates that at least one million people will lose their jobs as a direct result of TTIP. The European Commission admits that many will not find other work. The UK govt once suggested that TTIP could be worth ‘up to £10 bn a year’ to the economy. Yet the minister responsible for TTIP, Ken Clarke, admitted at a meeting in the House of Commons that the figure has no credibility. John Hilar, War on Want, Red Pepper.
- Jul.14.2014: On TTIP and the NHS, they are trying to bamboozle us. The TTIP trade treaty talks re-open in Brussels this week. We should not be reassured by the convenient 'leak' of a private letter between key TTIP advocates claiming the treaty poses no threat to the NHS. John Hilary, openDemocracy.