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Common Dreams reports
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said [August 25] that the U.S. Senate will not vote on the 12-nation, corporate-friendly Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) this year, buoying progressive hopes that the trade deal will never come to fruition.
[...] McConnell told a Kentucky State Farm Bureau breakfast in Louisville that the agreement, "which has some serious flaws, will not be acted upon this year".
Common Dreams also reports
Germany's Vice Chancellor and Economic Minister said that the controversial Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has "de facto failed", admitting that negotiations between the U.S. and E.U. have completely stalled.
"Negotiations with the U.S. have de facto failed because, of course, as Europeans, we couldn't allow ourselves to submit to American demands", Sigmar Gabriel told the German news station ZDF [1][2] in an interview that will air at 7pm German time [August 28], according to Der Spiegel. [1]
"Everything has stalled", Gabriel said.
[1] In German [2] Content behind scripts
Reported by BBC, in English.
In 14 rounds of talks, the two sides had not agreed on a single common chapter out of 27 being discussed, Mr Gabriel said. "In my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it," said Mr Gabriel.
He suggested Washington was angry about a deal the EU struck with Canada, because it contained elements the US does not want to see in the TTIP.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 29 2016, @03:49PM
Just drown the treaties, and all the bitches and sons of bitches that have had a hand in them. Invite everyone aboard a cruise ship, take them out fifty miles from land, and march them off the fantail. No lifeboats, no lifejackets - make everyone strip down to underwear, and march them off the ship.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @05:23PM
You forgot the chum.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday August 29 2016, @07:45PM
Save that money by throwing them off the stern while in reverse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @07:53PM
Do you like databases? Cause that's how you get into a database...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @08:19PM
I'm pretty sure all of us here are already in a database, even Tor and VPN users.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday August 29 2016, @11:29PM
That's nothing. I once joined an ostensibly very progressive political party and I've written to my MP twice
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].