(Video) Senator Warns TPP/TTIP Will Be “Living Agreements”

[donnay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLXwX82qH8

[Peace Piper]

Bump

If Ron was running he would be talking about this.

Why the silence?

If Rand supports something like this TPP are we all supposed to do the same?

Taking sovereignty from the American People is just as easy as stealing money from them, apparently.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFLRuMHAK_w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTqts7amx0

[donnay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqi7LJ5_xSM

[timosman]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be91f3ca-273c-11e6-8b18-91555f2f4fde.html


May 31, 2016

Washington and Brussels are scrambling to rebuild momentum for a landmark trade accord, amid signs that it is faltering under an increasingly bitter onslaught from politicians on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, travelled to Paris on Tuesday to sell potentially the world’s biggest trade deal to one of the toughest political constituencies in Europe — a convention of France’s mayors.
He reassured them that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would not undermine their interests.
“I believe that TTIP negotiations can yield a deal that will profit the European economy — our [small and medium enterprises] and our farmers — without harming standards,” he said.
Frustrated by hardening opposition from Germany’s influential socialists and the French government, Mr Juncker has called for the 28 member states to reconfirm their commitment to the deal at a summit in June. The commission argued that the countries must show they are “all rowing in the same direction”. Britain and Italy are strong supporters.
Speaking in Stockholm on a European tour to push TTIP, Michael Froman, US President Barack Obama’s trade tsar, warned that there was no “Plan B” if talks were not concluded this year. “We either work together to help set the rules of the world or we leave that role to others.”
TTIP’s supporters have also been blindsided by increasing opposition to trade deals in the US, where Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has built his campaign around an antitrade message and Democrat Hillary Clinton, facing a challenge from the left, has abandoned her support for a similar Pacific trade pact.
With the clock running out on Mr Obama’s presidency, officials on both sides now believe that the window is closing for a deal to be reached and approved in legislatures in Europe and the US before the end of the year. EU officials stress that they want to agree a working text by July.
A failure to complete the agreement before a change in US administration could condemn the pact to years of drift.
France is the most vocal TTIP sceptic, largely because of fears that the deal could harm its hallowed farming sector and lessen the value of geographical indications that protect iconic French wines, cheeses and meats.
While Mr Juncker was addressing the mayors, François Hollande, French president, was offering his own, more defiant, assurances at the inauguration of a wine centre in Bordeaux.
“There can be no question of sacrificing our interests to get a deal,” he said. “Geographical indications contribute to preserving agricultural quality in our country. They help keep our farming activity on our land.”
In May, Mr Hollande was even more categorical, saying that France would say “no” to any deal “at this stage”.
In Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, vice-chancellor and economy minister, criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel in a newspaper interview last week over her enthusiasm to conclude TTIP this year.
US trade officials say that, ironically, TTIP negotiations have been making good progress in recent months. They also express annoyance that Mr Hollande is more interested in domestic politics before French elections in April rather than in striking a deal to defend US and EU commercial standards in the face of a rising China.
“To put it mildly, there are a lot of mixed signals out of Europe in recent weeks and we are trying to sort through them,” a senior US official told the Financial Times.
“We are hoping that the message out of Brussels at the end of June will provide clear evidence of a broad European commitment to TTIP.”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgT_BgIuQP4