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from the not-surrendering-to-corporations-for-now dept.

Common Dreams reports [commondreams.org]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said [thehill.com] [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 [reuters.com] 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 [commondreams.org]

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 [www.zdf.de][1][2] in an interview that will air at 7pm German time [August 28], according to [spiegel.de] Der Spiegel. [1]

"Everything has stalled", Gabriel said.

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