A posse of fat cats from across Europe penned a joint open letter calling for EU leaders to “step up the pressure” and push through the unpopular US-EU deal, which would allow companies to sue national governments if they refuse to flog off public services, including the NHS. And their plea came as shady business lobbyists launched a glad-handing campaign with European prime ministers in Brussels, aiming to persuade them to sell their electorates down the river. In a letter to the Financial Times, bosses’ club CBI chief executive John Cridland joined European counterparts to say: “TTIP has been subject to heated debate over the past year. “It is our collective responsibility to make sure this debate is based on facts and hard evidence alone.” But War on Want executive director John Hilary told the Star: “It is laughable that the CBI is calling for a ‘factual debate’ on the benefits of TTIP when it’s happy to bandy around bogus figures as to what the agreement will bring. “We have now seen that TTIP will cost us at least 600,000 jobs in Europe alone. “The only people who stand to gain from TTIP are the big businesses the CBI represents. For everyone else TTIP is a disaster.” The trade deal has prompted a wave of protest across Europe.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:49:56 +0000
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