(June 27, 2016 at 10:52 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Reading up on it it looks like this anti-TTIP stuff is anti-American paranoia.
Not all of it, no. Recently one of our papers published leaked informations on it. Not a tabloid but a serious paper. The negotiators always made a big secret over the contents of that deal. Obviously rightly so, since, if it were signed in it's current form, it would give the USA, and most of all, corporations, undue leverage. Such as courts of Arbitration trumping regular courts of law in case of economical disputes.
Now, there's two ways you can react to that information. One is to blow it out of proportion and incite fear in the process to make a political dime, thereby solving nothing. The other one would be, building upon that and try to execute influence by signing petitions, taking the streets, to make renogotiations happen. You can also take it up with the European court, which rejected treaties and laws being to the detriment of the people before.