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Major vote on controversial EU-US trade deal is postponed – why?

 This blog reported yesterday on a European Parliament vote due
to take place today, that could have removed the controversial
‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ – the power for corporations to sue
governments – from the even more controversial Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership plan between the EU and the US.


It is proof of the obsessively secretive way that negotiations over
the TTIP have been carried out that – at the time yesterday’s piece was
being written – the vote had already been postponed.


According to Unite the Union’s Touchstone
blog, several explanations have been put forward. The official version –
to reduce the number of amendments put forward from 116 – is dubious,
as in fact most were likely to be taken off the table to allow the
Parliament to discuss the heart of the matter – whether the
controversial ISDS mechanism should be allowed to remain part of the
deal.


No new date has been set for a future vote.