Opposite of Transparency: Germany’s TTIP Room ‘Smacks of Totalitarianism’
SputnikNews.com
08.02.2016
With concerns over the controversial TTIP trade deal between the EU and US, a select number of German MPs have been granted limited access to view the agreement in its current form. Despite this initiative, lawmaker Katja Kipping has raised serious concerns about the transparency of the deal.
While some have promoted the TTIP reading room as a win for transparency, Katja Kipping from Germany’s Left Party, has shared the many restrictions placed on lawmakers hoping to gain a better grasp of the finer deals of the deal.
In the plan, announced by German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, MPs must register to access the reading room and are only allowed to spend two hours reading the documents, while mobile phones and other electronic devices must be stored away in a secure locker.
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