Africans are insisting on actual economic development which is leaving European trade negotiators exasperated. Rick Rowden explains why their stand is historic and right.
Given the rising public concern, “we need more transparency, sensitivity, openness and time” to build public support for trade, Lamy said, arguing that opposition should not be caricatured as merely “Trotskyists or old-fashioned protectionists.”
“It’s a huge political mistake to cry wolf now. We just have to work harder to gain public legitimization for trade in the growing pressure,” he said. “Trade opening works because it hurts, and it hurts because it works.”
Ein weiterer propagandistischer Kniff zur Rechtfertigung der Freihandelsabkommen. Wird bestimmt bald übersetzt in den deutschen "Leitmedien" kolportiert.
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will have "few or no benefits to the UK", according to the only official assessment of the deal commissioned by the UK Government. The warning was disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information request by anti-TTIP campaigners Global Justice Now.