{"id":20836,"date":"2016-05-29T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20836"},"modified":"2016-05-29T18:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:38:06","slug":"merkels-ttip-policy-is-wrong-german-vice-chancellor-criticizes-us-eu-free-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20836","title":{"rendered":"Merkel\u2019s TTIP policy is \u2018wrong:\u2019 German Vice Chancellor criticizes US-EU free trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merkel\u2019s TTIP policy is \u2018wrong:\u2019 German Vice Chancellor criticizes US-EU free trade deal<\/a><\/h3>\n
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German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel. \u00a9 Fabrizio Bensch \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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TTIP Hastiness would lead to an unfavorable agreement, German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, criticizing Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s approach to reaching an agreement with the US on harmonizing trade and investment regulations.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt was wrong that, in the euphoria of [President Barack] Obama’s visit to Germany, the Chancellor said that we will be able to conclude negotiations under any circumstances by the end of this year \u2013 and that she recently repeated that statement,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Gabriel said in an interview to the German regional RND newspaper group, criticizing Merkel\u2019s stance on negotiations concerning the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the US.<\/p>\n

Gabriel, who is the leader of Merkel\u2019s German Social Democratic Party (SPD), also stressed that haste would lead to an unfavorable deal adding that he and his party will\u00a0\u201cnever\u201d<\/em>\u00a0agree to something they deem\u00a0\u201cbad.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe SPD will not to be part of a bad deal,”<\/em>\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cI will never approve an agreement that retains [the right for the companies to appeal to] nontransparent private commercial courts,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he stated, referring to the issue that the agreement would allow transnational corporations to challenge domestic laws and regulations in special tribunals thus potentially undermining national environmental and labor protections.<\/p>\n

He also stressed that he would not approve any deal that envisages standards deemed lower than those included in the freshly-negotiated EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which has already been approved by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

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Merkel\u2019s TTIP policy is \u2018wrong:\u2019 German Vice Chancellor criticizes US-EU free trade deal German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel. \u00a9 Fabrizio Bensch \/ Reuters TTIP Hastiness would lead to an unfavorable agreement, German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, criticizing Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s approach to reaching an agreement with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1890,284,337,8114,13952,1132,827],"class_list":["post-20836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-angela-merkel","tag-european-union","tag-free-trade","tag-rt-news","tag-sigmar-gabriel","tag-ttip","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20838,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions\/20838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}