Goodbye to democracy if TTIP is passed

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987653/goodbye_to_democracy_if_ttip_is_passed.html
http://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/goodbye-democracy-transatlantic-partnership/
Date Written:  2016-05-05
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19410

The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.

Subject Headings

• International Agreements/Treaties
• Trade Agreements