STOP TTIP ------ WikiLeaks' Most Wanted
WikiLeaks' Most Wanted
TTIP
€100,000 reward for Europe's most wanted secret. The TTIP is a
multi-trillion dollar international treaty that is being negotiated in
secret between the United States and the European Union. It remains
secret almost in its entirety, closely guarded by the negotiators, and
only big corporations are given special access to its terms. The TTIP
covers half of global GDP and is one of the largest agreements of its
kind in history. The TTIP aims to create a global economic bloc outside
of the WTO framework, as part of a geopolitical economic strategy
against the BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa.
The Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has dubbed the TTIP
an "economic NATO," comparing it to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization military alliance. Over the last two years WikiLeaks has
published chapters from two other secret global trade deals, including
the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the Trade in Services
Agreement (TISA), despite unprecedented efforts by negotiating
governments to keep them under wraps.
Together with the TTIP, these treaties represent the "Three Big T's",
affecting 53 countries, 1.6 billion people and covering two thirds of
the global economy. They aim to create a new international legal regime
allowing transnational corporations to bypass domestic courts, evade
environmental protections, police the internet on behalf of the content
industry, limit the availability of affordable generic medicines, and
drastically curtail each country's legislative sovereignty. Of the
"Three Big T's", the TTIP remains the least exposed to public scrutiny,
and the most significant to the interests of the European public.
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