Posted on 05/08/2016 4:40:29 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
The leaking of hundreds of pages of negotiating texts for an ambitious U.S.-European Union free-trade agreement is continuing to make waves in France and elsewhere in Europe, just days after President Obama expressed confidence that a deal – a key goal of his administration – is within reach.
Already skeptical politicians and others see the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) documents leaked by the environmental group Greenpeace as confirming fears that the agreement would not be good for Europe.
French President Francois Hollande responded to the leaks by saying he would not support the TTIP as it stands.
The minister responsible for foreign trade and France’s representative in the negotiations, Mathias Fekl, stated that a decision to stop the negotiations was the only option at this stage.
“No agreement can be taken without France and much less against France,” he said, in reference to the fact all 28 E.U. members will have to support the final deal before it can enter into force.
First announced in June 2013, the TTIP aims to turn the U.S. and E.U. into the largest free-trade area in the world. In France it is often known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA).
The 248 pages of confidential documents leaked this week provide a glimpse of the current status of the secretive talks between European and American negotiators. Among other details, the secret memo reveals that Americans are pushing to increase oil and gas exploration through the process of fracking and other methods.
Bless whomever it was that leaked these documents. It will likely take longer than Obola has left to try and get this chrome-plated turd back on track.
I know, but most of these countries are saying that this is not about a trade deal. it is about a mass climate take over and Hussein obama wants full control
Anything in the documents about Kerry’s Borderless World ? or would these trap scams be the start of the Borderless World ?
If it was a good deal, why would anybody want it secret?
Tell France Tough!! Glad it was leaked Pray America wakes the heck up!!!! This treaty stinks and we need to stop it
How does US fracking make it into a free trade deal? Who has the authority to ban our use of that?
Of course these treaties aren't good for any country, and especially not the people who live there. These treaties are designed to benefit the same elites who determine whom we "elect" to rule over us.
Well, if the documents are so “leaked” where the heck are they?
I want to give it a read before I am forced to live under it.
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As SanFranNan once said, “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it”.
As I understand the deal would allow US companies to use fraking technologies in Europe and Greenpeace says it is bad.
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