The TTIP (Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership) is slowly emerging as an issue in the Euro elections although public awareness remains low. It is one of those extremely important issues where debate is limited by a combination of complexity and opaqueness.
This hustings should help shed light on the issue:
Web: www.groups.wdm.org.uk/northandeastlondon
Keith Taylor, Green MEP for the South East published a detailed report on the TTIP two months ago and I include it here for readers:
This hustings should help shed light on the issue:
Take Back the Power
Global Justice and the European Elections
Monday 19 May, 7pm
Small Hall,
Friends Meeting House, 173-177 Euston Rd,
Come and meet your MEP candidates and question them on their commitment to trade justice.
• Jean Lambert, Green Party
• Jonathan Fryer, Liberal Democrats
• Seb Dance, Labour Party
• Glyn Chambers, Conservative Party
• Tbc, UKIP (invited)
Chair: John Hilary, Executive Director, War on Want
On
Thursday 22nd May, we will be voting for candidates to represent us in
the European Parliament. Europe takes decisions on important global
issues, including trade.
A
major trade deal - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(TTIP) - is currently being negotiated between the USA and the EU. New
corporate trade deals like this threaten to increase global inequality,
undermine democracy and hand public service provision to multinational
companies.
• What effect will this deal have on our lives here in the UK?
• How can we ensure that this deal prioritises human rights, environmental protection and labour standards?
• How can we ensure transparency and accountability in the negotiation of these deals?
Meet
your European Parliamentary election candidates and hear what they have
to say on these issues and what they will do to address them, if
elected on 22 May.
Organised by North and East London World Development Movement
Join the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/655635101157740
Contact nandelondonwdm@gmail.com to find out more
Keith Taylor, Green MEP for the South East published a detailed report on the TTIP two months ago and I include it here for readers:
