WikiLeaks Is Raising €100,000 Reward for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Text
€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.
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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