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"Desires of the public"
Yeah right, that's called 'lip service".

When stuff actually matters: https://stop-ttip.org/ half of the corrupt fkkrs aren't listening.

The EPP for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Are completely ignoring their own 'manifesto and platform', I swear they had some governing principles but they seem to have scrapped them, obviously a bit of a hassle these principles things.

https://stop-ttip.org/what-is-...

Investors will be able to sue states.
The so-called Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement (ISDS) – even in it’s new disguise as the EU’s “Investment Court System” (ICS) model – will grant foreign investors (i.e. Canadian and US companies) the right to sue European states if they believe that laws or measures of the EU or any member state have damaged their investments and reduced their expected profit. This will also affect laws and measures enacted in the interest of the common good, such as environmental and consumer protection.

"TTIP is seen in Europe as purely an economic issue"

Eh? By who, not by the people of the EU.

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Over 3 million signatures against, US has got some catching up to do!

These big treaties coming out lately like TPP TTIP ACTA CETA have nothing to do with fair trade or tarriffs and everything to do with corporations bypassing national legal systems to put in place permanent laws that benefit them but certainly not the consumer or the environment or public services etc.

Well over 3 million signatures against TTIP and CETA so far:
https://stop-ttip.org/

It's much worse, The Commission are an unelected unaccountable bunch of c**t bureaucrats who let the lobbyists write the laws, they continuously bombard the EU parliament with shit to see what sticks. They truly deserve to hang (like the UK tory govt).

Unfortunately EU MEPs are not even sticking to the principles of their parties and super-groups that they belong to let alone representing the voters who put them in to parliament.

3.3 million signatures against TTIP and still the c***s support it. Obama is worse though.

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And millions more jobs lost, workers rights assaulted, product and food standards attacked, environmental protection capability removed. These treaties are written by corporations for corporations, if we don't reject them then it's game over for democracy and justice.

TTIP: donâ(TM)t mention the job losses / Employment / Blogs - The Broker
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TTIP, TISA, TPP CESA etc are all so bad it'd take a large book to cover all the reasons why they're bad. If you've never written to your representative then now is the time.

RTFA and you might then understand the issue.

What they don't clearly say is the real reason they dropped the bans is because the bans would likely not be legal if TTIP were implemented.

TTIP removes the ability of the gov't and EU to protect people and the environment in many ways. ISDS allows companies to sue governments if some new law causes them to lose profits. In effect, new laws to protect people can not be written if they impinge on some corporations TTIP given right to make profit at any expense.

TTIP is insanely bad, it is undemocratic, written by The Commission and corporations in order to help corporate profits at the expense of jobs, health, public serivces and the environment.

What is TTIP? And six reasons why the answer should scare you - Comment - Voices - The Independent

UN calls for suspension of TTIP talks over fears of human rights abuses | Global | The Guardian

New trade deal with U.S. will open the door to inferior food pumped with growth hormones and pesticides warns Jamie Oliver | Daily Mail Online

TTIP will cost one million jobs: official | War on Want

Email MEP (not mp) (sorry UK only)

This capitulation is very much proof that there will be a race to the bottom with regards to standards, there will be a corporate orgy of cost-cutting at the expense of our health and product quality. All of this cost-cutting will of course cost jobs.

Stop TTIP, sign the petition