Showing posts with label EU-US Trade Deal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU-US Trade Deal. Show all posts
8/30/16
TTIP: details show it would rather harm than benefit consumers
France to call for end to talks on EU-US trade deal: minister
http://f24.my/2bO4Spl
6/18/13
US-EU: Special Interests and Governments Will Screw Up EU-US Trade Deal - by Matthew Feeney
The talks almost didn’t happen thanks to the French, who threatened to veto if the French film and TV industry wasn’t excluded from the negotiations.
As the talks develop we should expect to see more of these sort of exemptions as well as special deals with other industries. It shouldn’t be surprising when European farmers, American manufacturers, and others complain about the potential deal.
Any trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union will require ratification from the E.U. member states and the U.S. Congress. Just how beneficial a trade deal that has been ratified by over two dozen governments and includes considerations for specials interests will be to Europeans and Americans remains to be seen. I can’t say I’m optimistic.
Read more: Special Interests and Governments Will Screw Up EU-US Trade Deal - Hit and Run; Run : Reason.com
As the talks develop we should expect to see more of these sort of exemptions as well as special deals with other industries. It shouldn’t be surprising when European farmers, American manufacturers, and others complain about the potential deal.
Any trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union will require ratification from the E.U. member states and the U.S. Congress. Just how beneficial a trade deal that has been ratified by over two dozen governments and includes considerations for specials interests will be to Europeans and Americans remains to be seen. I can’t say I’m optimistic.
Read more: Special Interests and Governments Will Screw Up EU-US Trade Deal - Hit and Run; Run : Reason.com
6/17/13
France hits back at 'reactionary' claims
"Some say they belong to the left, but in fact they are culturally extremely reactionary," Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission said in an interview with the International Herald Tribune published on Monday.
That prompted Jean-Christophe Cambedelis, a national secretary of France's ruling party, to describe his remarks as "intolerable", saying he should "retract his comments or quit". A Commission spokesman said "there is no basic disagreement between the Commission and the French government on this question."
He also denied that Mr Barroso's criticism targeted France's Socialist government. Mr Barroso's unusually outspoken words followed a marathon round of difficult European Union talks on Friday after France held up agreement between the bloc's 27 trade ministers on the exact terms of the Commission's mandate to negotiate a EU-US trade deal.
After 13 hours, a compromise was finally reached agreeing to the French demand but which also stated that the Commission could come back on the question if necessary.
Note EU-Digest: maybe the trade deal negotiations between the EU and the US should be put on hold until their is more clarity as to the damage done to European Citizens Privacy Rights as a result of the PRISM issue .
Read more: France hits back at 'reactionary' claims - Telegraph
That prompted Jean-Christophe Cambedelis, a national secretary of France's ruling party, to describe his remarks as "intolerable", saying he should "retract his comments or quit". A Commission spokesman said "there is no basic disagreement between the Commission and the French government on this question."
He also denied that Mr Barroso's criticism targeted France's Socialist government. Mr Barroso's unusually outspoken words followed a marathon round of difficult European Union talks on Friday after France held up agreement between the bloc's 27 trade ministers on the exact terms of the Commission's mandate to negotiate a EU-US trade deal.
After 13 hours, a compromise was finally reached agreeing to the French demand but which also stated that the Commission could come back on the question if necessary.
Note EU-Digest: maybe the trade deal negotiations between the EU and the US should be put on hold until their is more clarity as to the damage done to European Citizens Privacy Rights as a result of the PRISM issue .
Read more: France hits back at 'reactionary' claims - Telegraph
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