TTIP Talks Dominated by ‘Corporate Lobbyists That Swarm Around Brussels’
SputnikNews.com
15.10.2015
European Union Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström has admitted “I do not take my mandate from the European people” over the secretive talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal, Sputnik has been told.
There has been huge criticism of the TTIP trade deal between the European Union and the US. Critics, however, say the deal set to be the biggest in the world will hand huge powers to multinational companies and will lead to looser regulation and potentially, allow big business to take legal action against governments that outlaw certain products or services.
According to John Hilary, Executive Director at War on Want, the person leading the talks, Cecilia Malmström, is being heavily influenced by corporate lobbyists. Hilary told Sputnik:
“I challenged Malmström over the huge opposition to TTIP across Europe. In the last year, a record three and a quarter million European citizens have signed the petition against it.”
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