TTIP News

For some time the Voice has been following with concern the proposed TTIP plans, which would allow business corporations to challenge environmental safeguards, amongst other things, if they were thought to interfere with profit-making. But now Alyn Smith, Scottish MEP, reports that:

“This week there was even more confirmation that the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) really is at death’s door. On Monday the Commission conceded that it had still to successfully negotiate even one of the proposed twenty four chapters of TTIP. This shows quite how little progress has been made on TTIP and confirms what I have been saying for a while: it is nearly over. It also shows how difficult trade negotiations can be, something the UK Government keeps forgetting. In further TTIP news French Trade Minister Matthias Fekl confirmed that since the talks were going nowhere France intended to request that the TTIP negotiations stop.”

So thank goodness for that.