American surveillance may kill US-EU free-trade talks

[flamingdem]

http://rt.com/business/nsa-free-trade-spying-477/

The ‘biggest bilateral trade deal in history’, reached at the G8 Summit, is possibly at risk as rapport between the US and EU quickly degenerates over leaks which reveal the US allegedly spied on EU diplomats.

The trade relationship, valued at hundreds of billions of dollars, could boost economic growth on both sides of the Atlantic, and potentially be a key factor in ending the economic downturn.

EU leaders are demanding answers after leaked NSA documents revealed the US was tracking diplomatic communications, an accusation, if proved true, could derail the historic free-trade deal.

Both France and Germany, Europe’s largest and second largest economy have both responded strongly to the alleged spying practices.

[DJ13]

1. good

We cant afford much more (un) free trade.

[KoKo]

2. Good...and hopefully the TPP also.

[marions ghost]

3. Shoulda thought of that

while they were busy dismantling democracy in this country and excessively surveilling the world.

I hope Europe kicks our ass good. Might be what that arrogant out-of-control bully America needs to reform. Europe still has some ethics in spots, and more intelligent thinking in the upper echelons of power.

Crimes against humanity shouldn't get a payoff.

[reformist2]

4. I'd rather it threatened US-China free trade, but I'll take what I can get.

[flamingdem]

6. Can you explain why you'd like US-Europe trade threatened?

curious

[closeupready]

5. Fine with me. "Trade" is not what talks are about.

Diminishing labor is. K&R

[flamingdem]

8. Please detail this a bit

I am not up on the impact on unions or other workers in the US

[closeupready]

9. NAFTA helped decimate labor and unions in the US.

While enriching management and shareholders.

Not sure what else you need to know about these duplicitous trade negotiations.

[flamingdem]

10. Well I wanted to know more about this particular deal

I can google

[closeupready]

11. Okay, sorry, I don't know about this deal in particular; what I do know

is that it seems as if every single "trade" deal over the last 30 years has been to the benefit of management and the detriment of labor.

So news that a development has halted yet another likely-shitty deal is "fine with me".

Cheers.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

7. Good, that should get the totalitarians attention

WTF are these nitwits thinking?

[WovenGems]

12. Free Trade

I want all Free Trade to suffer a horrible death. Taking down all its proponents in doing so. And for Fair Trade to save the day.

[Orrex]

13. Golly--maybe Snowden is a hero after all.

[1-Old-Man]

14. Folks, you are looking at part of this backwards. They have already broken the Unions in the US.

Now its time for France and Germany to break their Unions. We may complain of cheap asian labor competing with our own jobs, but to the EU we are the cheap labor and when we can trade freely with them it is the people of the EU who will suffer the loss of the one thing that keeps a working man more than a slave - Trade Unions.

[truebluegreen]

15. Now that would be a worthwhile result!