Conservatives and Social Democrats in favor of TTIP against parliamentary sovereignty MEPs
The campaign not to TTIP criticizes the vote held today at the Committee
on International Trade (INTA) of the European Parliament. MEPs
coalition between conservatives, social democrats and liberals supported
the negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Treaty
(TTIP), one of the most controversial issues of the current legislature.
The report adopted today is contrary Review European public, who
mobilized last April 18 in more than 700 cities worldwide. At
demonstrations nearly two million signatures in addition to the European
Citizens' Initiative that oppose the trade agreement between the EU and
the US, as it would mean the loss of more than a million jobs and an
unprecedented attack on the rights labor, social and environmental.
The full Parliament will vote on this report at its next plenary session in Strasbourg during the week of June 8.
The campaign "No to Transatlantic Trade Treaty and Investment ",
supported by over 250 organizations and platforms of the Spanish State,
valued very negatively the text of the report:" Most members of the
Trade Commission of the Parliament has turned its back on its own
constituents, because they have become to support economic and trade
policy that is one of the root causes of growing poverty, social
exclusion and structural unemployment which affects millions of people
in Europe and the world. "
With the vote also they supported
the controversial European Commission proposal for a "dispute settlement
Investor-State", a parallel legal system known as ISDS, which overrides
the rule of law and granted powers privileged to foreign investors
through private tribunals operating outside the formal justice . "A real
attack on democracy and parliamentary sovereignty," he points to the
#NoalTTIP campaign.
The compromise amendment presented at the
last moment by the president of the Trade Commission, the Social Bernd
Lange, dropped a key phrase rejecting the use of ISDS mechanisms, and
supported instead proposed "investment protection" in the TTIP
introduced by Trade Commissioner of the EU, Cecilia Malmström, earlier
this month.
Thanks to public pressure, have been known various
ISDS cases where companies have sued the states by the laws or measures
that protect public health and the environment, or tried to ensure
access to public services among others.
precisely caused by
the rejection, the ISDS mechanism was removed from TTIP negotiations in
January 2014. The European Commission launched a public consultation
which received a record 150,000 responses, and the which more than 97%
rejected the inclusion of ISDS mechanism in TTIP.
