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The leak is here.
First announced on reddit
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.]
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Monday July 13 2015, @12:50PM
I'll give it a swing.. don't laugh about my poor German.
Mon Jul 13 14:46:30 CEST 2015
downloaded from https://correctiv.org/recherchen/ttip/dokumente/ [correctiv.org]
The Documents
The negotiations to the free trade (abkommen?) TTIP take place behind closed doors.
The documents to the (unterredungen=discussions?) are not public.
That creates mistrust.
Nobody knows, which positions are discussed, or for which reasons.
Are citizens' interests played out against business interests?
Is the industry lobby undermining our democracy?
What do the USA and the states of Europe really want to achieve?