With global trade negotiations deadlocked for years, regional agreements – long a dormant route to trade liberalization – are back with a vengeance. The United States is at the center of two mega-deals that could shape the future path of world trade.
EU-Handelskommissarin Malmström verteidigt das Freihandelsabkommen mit den USA. Und erklärt, warum der VW-Abgas-Skandal den TTIP-Verhandlungen schaden könnte.
The massive opposition to TTIP in Europe should convince the EU to listen to its citizens, as the issue has the potential, in conjunction with other factors like Brexit, to bring the whole idea of the Union into question, writes Nomi Byström.
48% of respondents thought that the two trans-Atlantic trade agreements CETA and TTIP would be bad for the French economy. More outcomes are explained in the article.
Das Freihandelsabkommen bringe mehr Jobs, Wachstum und Wohlstand, heißt es von den Befürwortern. Eine neue Studie nach dem Global Policy Model (GPM) der Vereinten Nationen, durchgeführt von der Tufts Unversity aus den USA, behauptet das Gegenteil.