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German judges’ damning indictment of TTIP deal
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A GROUP of German judges have just dealt a serious blow to the European Commission’s desperate TTIP “compromise.”
They’ve issued a damning indictment on the proposal for an “international investment court,” which the EU Commission hoped would get them out of the deep mess that the TTIP negotiations are in.
To recap: millions of people across Europe have expressed outrage at the proposal in the US-EU trade deal known as TTIP for a corporate court system which allows foreign corporations to sue governments in secret arbitration panels.
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