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TTIP: The elephant in the room
A Socialist and Democratic group of MEPs have agreed to a shabby compromise resolution supporting TTIP, leaving all the most unjust elements of the deal in tact, write KEITH EWING and JOHN HENDY
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the secret trade deal currently being negotiated between the EU and the US. Its text is a closely guarded secret shared only by the negotiators, including representatives of multinational corporations.
Drafts are withheld from both MEPs and members of all the European national parliaments, as well as US Congress and Senate members.
On May 28 the voice of almost two million Europeans who have petitioned against TTIP was ignored when the European Parliament’s international trade committee (Inta), led by the Socialist and Democrat group of MEPs, agreed to a shabby compromise resolution supporting TTIP. The compromise paves the way to a vote of the full European Parliament next week.
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