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World Trade & Who Needs the Flash Cards?

Armstrong Economics 31 Jul 2018

The Independent reported that an EU Official said that Juncker used ‘‘brightly coloured, simple flashcards” to explain trade to Trump during the meeting ... It has been Europe that delayed the TTIP deal and made it completely unworkable. What they are NOT explaining to people is that there is another MAJOR PROBLEM with the EU structure being exposed by trade negotiations and why Britain who run as fast away as possible....

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The U.K. is in Brexit trouble. It can’t decide whether to be closer to the ...

The Washington Post 07 Dec 2017

This helps explain why people protested the stalled TTIP transatlantic trade agreement, and why many British people are unhappy at the prospect of importing meat that has been washed in chlorine (this is common practice in the United States, but not the U.K ... The TTIP negotiations sought to resolve the issue by getting European and American regulators to accept that the other’s standards are equivalent in effect if different in detail....

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Germany cannot afford to turn its back on the US

CNN 18 Jan 2017

(CNN)Were Hillary Clinton being inaugurated into the world's most powerful office Friday, there would be no question about Germany remaining the linchpin of trans-Atlantic relations ... The election of Donald Trump has blown this out of the water ... JUST WATCHED ... Replay ... This growing anti-Americanism also helps explains the fervent opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, the proposed EU-US free trade deal ... ....

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Putin talks Trump, Brexit, TTIP at APEC briefing in Lima

Russia Today 20 Nov 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes both the EU and the UK use common sense in the Brexit process so that it doesn’t have negative consequences. Putin also explained his position on US President-elect Donald Trump and the TTIP deal ... ....

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EU Commission refuses to revise Canada Ceta trade deal

BBC News 23 Sep 2016

Ms Malmstrom was speaking as EU trade ministers met in Slovakia to discuss Ceta and a similar deal with the US, TTIP, which has also faced criticism ... Thousands of activists protested against Ceta and TTIP in Germany on Saturday and thousands more in Brussels - outside the EU's headquarters - on Tuesday ... TTIP. TTIP. The EU-US trade deal explained. Are US-Europe TTIP trade talks tanking? ... But he was pessimistic about TTIP....

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UK pushed to back of US trade deal queue following Brexit vote

The Irish Times 22 Sep 2016

WTF is TTIP? The EU-US trade deal explained 75% of UK businesses eye Ireland as post-Brexit home ... Focus on TTIP ... The UK would have been part of TTIP had it not opted to leave the bloc. “It’s absolutely clear, we have a very special relationship with the UK, we’re going to want to find ways to maintain and strengthen and deepen that trade and investment relationship over time but right now our priority is to get TTIP done,” Froman said ... ....

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UK pushed to back of US trade queue following Brexit vote

The Irish Times 22 Sep 2016

WTF is TTIP? The EU-US trade deal explained 75% of UK businesses eye Ireland as post-Brexit home ... The UK would have been part of TTIP had it not opted to leave the bloc. “It’s absolutely clear, we have a very special relationship with the UK, we’re going to want to find ways to maintain and strengthen and deepen that trade and investment relationship over time, but right now our priority is to get TTIP done,” Mr Froman said ...  . ....

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Protests in Germany against transatlantic TTIP and CETA trade deals

BBC News 17 Sep 2016

Protesters say the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will lower European standards on food and environmental protection, and could lead to outsourcing and job-losses ... TTIP. The EU-US trade deal explained. TTIP ... "I want us to get rid of TTIP and for European social and environmental standards to be respected, maintained and improved," said Peter Clausing in Berlin....

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German Protesters Gather to Oppose Transatlantic Trade Deals

Bloomberg 17 Sep 2016

Protesters gathered in seven German cities on Saturday to oppose transatlantic trade pacts between the European Union and the U.S ... and the EU about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP ... For a QuickTake explainer on the free trade debate, click here. While TTIP’s advocates point to the economic benefits and the introduction of global standards, its detractors say it will erode wages and conditions ... ....

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G20 leaders discuss global economy at China summit

BBC News 04 Sep 2016

World leaders are meeting in China at the G20 summit to discuss policies to bolster the world economy ... He added that the US would prioritise its trade talks with the EU - known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - ahead of talks with the UK. Mrs May will be explaining at the summit what the British decision to leave the EU might entail.Hinkley Point ... ....

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CETA: why TTIP’s death is being exaggerated

GM Watch 30 Aug 2016

The Head of the TUC’s EU and International Relations Department explains that reports of TTIP’s demise are being exaggerated in order to sneak through the more advanced CETA trade deal ... ....

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Commentary: No trade? No kidding

Springfield News-Sun 06 Aug 2016

In fact, both candidates spent more time at their respective nominating conventions running from the two biggest international trade deals on tap, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), than promoting or even explaining them ... The root cause of the sudden reversal, explained Politico, was ......

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This Cowardly Attack on Jeremy Corbyn Betrays the Labour Party and Lets the Conservatives Off ...

Huffington Post 11 Jul 2016

I think it would be fair to say that before our Organising and Leverage Department got on the case few people knew what TTIP was or what it meant for our NHS ... We explained that TTIP would mean hospitals forced to hand over contracts to American private health care providers with any refusal to do so meaning the NHS could be taken to a secret court with almost unlimited fines....

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