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New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents

posted by martyb on Monday July 13 2015, @11:11AM   
from the sunshine-is-the-best-disinfectant dept.

c0lo writes:

The leak is here.

First announced on reddit

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Original Submission

[Ed. addition]

What is the TTIP?

It's the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

TTIP is the biggest free-trade agreement ever, it's being discussed for quite a while now between Europe and the US. The discussions have been critizised for their lack of transparency and a lot of people fear that industry regulations will be lower after the agreement diminishing rights of citizens. Since the outcome will affect 820 million people, we're investigating it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership

According to the reddit discussion, a number of the documents have already been made public.

[Ed. update: Typo fix and revised the link to the correctiv.org web site to point to the English version; removed text pertaining to the German version.]

• correctiv paragraph 2 (Score: 3, Informative) by fritsd on Monday July 13 2015, @12:59PM

  by fritsd (4586) on Monday July 13 2015, @12:59PM (#208439) Journal

  paragraph 2:

  "We want to elucidate. And that's why we are publishing, under #openTTIP, a lot of confidential documents that we obtained.
  Those point out, which states represent which interests, which questions are heavily under negotiation, or which side is blocking [which issue -tr].
  Many worries from TTIP critics are also shared by some governments."

  I translated "heftig gestritten" as "heavily under negotiation" ;-)

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