250,000 march against Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Germany

[singular_me]

first time i hear about TTIP... which not to be confused with Trans-Pacific Partnership but looks about same concept
------------

In 25 EU member states, the majority of the population supports the planned EU-US free trade deal TTIP. But in Germany, its opponents are in the majority, something EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström could not explain during her visit to Berlin. EurActiv Germany reports.


German Economic Affairs Minister Sigmar Gabriel is accusing critics of the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) of fear-mongering. The fact that the public is being plied with the slogan “TTIP is evil”, “does not bring us ahead”, he said.

Gabriel spoke at a free trade conference hosted by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Monday (23 February) afternoon in Berlin, .

“Whoever simply hopes to stir up emotions does not trust people,” he argued. The issue of TTIP should be intensively debated but “on the basis of facts and not on the basis of vague assumptions”, Gabriel emphasised.
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/malmstrom-germanys-ttip-debate-more-heated-312354



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUxLmWtnoeY

[singular_me]

all too foreseeable
----------------------
‘Public services in the EU are under threat from transatlantic trade agreements that could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water, health, and energy for the sake of corporate profits, according to a new report released today by an international group of NGOs and trade unions.

The study shows how the EU’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) deal with Canada, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) under negotiation with the US, could lock public utilities into irreversible commercialisation and remove governments’ ability to regulate services.

Exposing systemic collusion between big business and European Commission officials in drawing up CETA and TTIP, the report shows how negotiators are doing the work of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive corporate agenda of far-reaching market opening in the public sector.’

New Report on Secretive EU Trade Deals Highlights Corrupt Agenda for Mass Privatisation
http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/new-report-on-secretive-eu-trade-deals-highlights-corrupt-agenda-for-mass-privatisation/

[singular_me]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lAy46iqJY4

[Blink]

All these "secret/vague" trade agreements aren't giving me the warm and fuzzies at all. And they all seem to happening at the same time. Frog soup almost at a boil....