Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door
Olive Yao
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George Monbiot - “Managing transparency”
Politicians and officials are desperately seeking to justify their transatlantic assault on democracy.
Panic spreads through the European Commission like ferrets in a rabbit warren. Its plans to create a single market incorporating Europe and the United States, progressing so nicely when hardly anyone knew, have been blown wide open. All over Europe people are asking why this is happening; why we were not consulted; for whom it is being done.
They have good reason to ask. The Commission insists that its Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership should include a toxic mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement. Where this has been forced into other trade agreements, it has allowed big corporations to sue governments before secretive arbitration panels composed of corporate lawyers, which bypass domestic courts and override the will of parliaments(1).
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Persistant digging by the
Corporate Europe Observatory reveals that the commission has held eight meetings on the issue with civil society groups, and 119 with corporations and their lobby groups(10). Unlike the civil society meetings, these have taken place behind closed doors and have not been disclosed online.
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What the Commission and its member governments fail to explain is why we need offshore arbitration at all. It insists that domestic courts “might be biased or lack independence”(13), (...)
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Goed artikel over TTIP, mede door de voetnoten / bronnen / links, ook naar texten van
voorstanders van tatip.
Democracy Center - Unfair, unsustainable and under the radar - How corporations use global investment rules to undermine a sustainable future
Glyn Moody / Open Enterprise : TTIP Update X
Intussen in Nederland:
Nederlandse kapitalisten roepen krant NRC op om geen artikelen van tatip-criticus te publiceren
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