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Baobab

(4,667 posts)
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:02 AM Feb 2016

Europeans:"Standstill", ratchet clauses in trade deals are a direct attack on Democracy, must be rem

Last edited Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:03 AM - Edit history (1)

I wanted to share this with people, it appears that our European friends are speaking up against these horrible deals that freeze progress and take away the right to regulate under the guise of investment protection.

(Note some people have had problems with these .eu PDF links, they dont trigger the proper PDF plugin behavior. You then need to save it as a file with a generic filename.pdf - and a .pdf file extension. Then open it.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+TA+P8-TA-2016-0041+0+DOC+PDF+V0//DE


http://akeuropa.eu/en/eu-parliament-sends-warning-signals-to-ongoing-tisa-negotiation-round.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=2688&vID=14

Here is an outline of TiSA (same as above applies)

http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6891-2013-ADD-1-DCL-1/en/pdf

We especially cannot afford to be rapped in for profit health insurance and for profit education and higher education by the one way ratchet (which would be better called a noose) They tighten with every movement - traping nations forever and nullifying the results of this and all future elections. Thats the point behind them.

For a description of how that happened to the Slovak Republic read this paper about healthcare and TPP by Canadian NGO The Council of Canadians / CCPA

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