Why Obama really wants Britain to stay in the EU… to impose TTIP on Europe – NGO
RT.com
22 Apr, 2016
US President Barack Obama is in the UK to impose the “toxic” Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal on Britain, a move which will allow US firms to demolish the state health system and more besides, War on Want warns.
The British NGO has branded Obama’s official visit as the forward edge in an imperialist-style fight to make sure the UK, and Europe more broadly, accept the principles of TTIP.
Critics of the plan say the negotiations have largely been carried out in a secretive and undemocratic way and TTIP would effectively crack open Europe for big US firms by removing a range of regulations.
They fear that private data, public services, food safety standards and even democracy itself could be threatened by the unaccountable power of big US capital.
War on Want said the deal is meeting with widespread resistance across the continent, with the French threatening to terminate talks and public approval plummeting in Germany.
“TTIP is an unpopular, anti-democratic stitch-up,” War on Want Senior Trade Campaigner Mark Dearn said in a statement.
“If President Obama truly believes in democracy he should forget about forcing this dodgy deal on the people of Europe.”
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