TTIP trade deal leaks reveal how the EU plans to sell Europe to US corporations.

The leaked documents about trade deal which is being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU show that If any European government dares to bring in laws to raise social or environmental standards, TTIP will grant US investors the right to sue for loss of profits. The European Commission slapped a 30-year ban on public access to the TTIP negotiating texts at the beginning of the talks in 2013, in the full knowledge that they would not be able to survive the outcry if people were given sight of the deal. The unelected EU-US negotiators have kept the talks going until now by means of a fanatical level of secrecy, with threats of criminal prosecution for anyone divulging the treaty’s contents. The documents show that US corporations will be granted unprecedented powers over any new public health or safety regulations to be introduced in future. If any European government does dare to bring in laws to raise social or environmental standards, TTIP will grant US investors the right to sue for loss of profits in their own corporate court system that is unavailable to domestic firms, governments or anyone else. The leaked texts also reveal how the European Commission is preparing to open up the European economy to unfair competition from giant US corporations, despite acknowledging the disastrous consequences this will bring to European producers, who have to meet far higher standards than pertain in the USA. For all those who said that this was just scaremongering about TTIP and that the EU would never allow this to happen, well, looks like you were wrong. Source: https://www.ttip-leaks.org/ http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ttip-leaks-shocking-what-are-they-eu-us-deal-a7010121.html