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

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.]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday July 13 2015, @01:48PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday July 13 2015, @01:48PM (#208479)

    In a nutshell, the dream of many in Washington and Brussels (and their bosses in New York and London and Frankfurt) is a world in which there is no such thing as a tariff or trade regulation. And now they really want to hurry that up and make it the law of the world before those pesky voters come along and elect somebody who doesn't want to do that.

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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:53AM

    by dry (223) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:53AM (#208739) Journal

    Of course they want trade regulations. They want consumers to be stuck in their geo-location and not capable of directly buying from over-seas. Think regional protection on DVDs and such as well as how much more expensive many things are in some countries such as Australia and Canada. In the case of Canada where the average price of goods is a third more then in America, it is done just because they can (at least according to the Canadian Senate). And obviously the same with Australia when it comes to digital goods at least.