Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma...
by snowwrestler on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:59PM
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> In both cases, what you get is not an international trade agrement. You may as well vote "no" or not even try to negotiate a deal.
Right, which is the exact point of this whole tiresome conversation about negotiations.
People who don't want TPP (or TTIP) to become law have figured out that it's easier to attack the process than to attack the substance[1], and the outcome would be the same.
[1] Not because the substance is unassailable, but because talking about it requires informing the listener, whereas invoking fears of secret cabals does not.
Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma...
by JupiterMoon on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:14AM
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The content of both includes and provides for secret extra-national cabals... So that might be where some of the fears come from.
I don't think legality was the issue. The issue is that there are dozens of countries that need to vote on the same exact text for it to have an effect.
Surely the US Congress could modify it but then the other players will at best ratify a different version and at worse change items here and there themselves.
In both cases, what you get is not an international trade agrement. You may as well vote "no" or not even try to negotiate a deal.