Scramble to Conclude Suspicious EU-US Trade Deal
by Stuart Littlewood / January 26th, 2015
UK industry is in intensive care. Should we throw open the door and allow Americas big business battalions to muscle in under cover of a trade treaty?
Critics claim that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being cooked up between the EU and the United States could:
Weaken workers rights and put millions of jobs at risk;
Reduce environmental protection and food safety regulation;
Lead to more privatisation of public services like education and our prized National Health Service (NHS);
Give new powers for corporations to sue European governments, including the UK, in secret courts.
They complain that world leaders are working alongside major corporations at breakneck speed to get this deal sewn up, and refuse to give details.
An especially prickly issue is the imposition of investor-to-state dispute settlement rules (ISDS) enabling foreign investors to sue the host government.
Full article:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/scramble-to-conclude-suspicious-eu-us-trade-deal/