Campaigners Call for End to ‘Failed Corporate Coup’ TTIP After Brexit

‘Campaign group Global Justice Now has told Sputnik that, since the result of the British referendum on its EU membership, precipitating Brexit, the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks should be halted.
The latest round of negotiations to create the biggest trade deal in the world between the European Union and the United States began Monday (July 11) for the first time since the UK signaled it would be leaving the EU, with Brexit top of the agenda.
“The TTIP negotiations were already on pretty shaky ground before the EU referendum, and now the shockwaves of Brexit are threatening to derail the deal entirely. With senior political figures from France and Italy signaling that the deal is dead in the water, surely Celia Malmström [European Trade Commissioner] should call time on this failed corporate coup.’
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