In this guest blog Adrian Bebb takes apart the European Commission’s new TTIP PR offensive, one currant at a time.
Adrian Bebb is senior food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe.
Last weekend over 700 actions took place across Britain, Europe and worldwide, to protest against the planned free trade agreement between the EU and US (called TTIP), and other unfair trade deals. The European Commission - charged by our national governments to negotiate a deal with the US – used the opportunity to apparently unveil their latest PR strategy.
"#TTIP would help European cake-makers sell more of their delicious cakes", said one tweet, explaining that we have different cream-making machines than in the US.
