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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGermny's Economy Minister Says U.S.-EU Free Trade Talks (TTIP) Have Failed
TTIP dead? One down and many more to go
"The negotiations with the USA have de facto failed because we Europeans did not want to subject ourselves to American demands," he said, according to a written transcript from German broadcaster ZDF of an interview due to be broadcast on Sunday.
Germany's Economy Minister Says U.S.-EU Free Trade Talks Have Failed
msongs
(67,420 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)Fucking disgraceful
pampango
(24,692 posts)Like any country joining the EU, we would have to accept their standards including those on labor rights, the environment and corporate regulation. None of them are perfect but they are way better than what we have now. We could rename it the 'North Atlantic Union'. And that would remove the WTO (which is not nearly as good on labor and the environment) from our trade with Europe.
Of course, European liberals would probably want no part of a 'right-to-work', no-safey-net US, even if we said we would change. And American conservatives would want no part of a 'socialist' Europe and the reduction in our 'nationally sovereign' right to do anything to our workers and poor people that we feel like doing.