{"id":4643,"date":"2015-01-19T20:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2015-01-19T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:33:42","slug":"europe-gets-cold-feet-on-ttip-americans-should-too-but-obama-needs-it-for-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4643","title":{"rendered":"Europe Gets Cold Feet on \u201cTTIP,\u201d Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2015\/01\/19\/europe-gets-cold-feet-on-ttip-americans-should-too-but-obama-needs-it-as-a-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Europe Gets Cold Feet on \u201cTTIP,\u201d Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As almost always, the U.S. government and European Commission are on the same page, reading from the same script. This year they have one overriding goal in common: to create the world\u2019s biggest \u201cfree\u201d trade area by passing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) into national and supranational law on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>To this end the White House is furiously lobbying Congress to grant it fast track authority for the passage of not only TTIP, but also TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). It is to be Obama\u2019s swansong legacy. And with the pro-\u201cfree\u201d trade Republicans firmly back in control on the Hill, he\u2019s almost certain to get what it wants.<\/p>\n<p>As such, TPP and TTIP negotiations will likely remain closed off from the public until the deals are finalized, by which time it will already be too late: just as happened with the passage of NAFTA in 1994, a largely compliant Congress will sign along the dotted lines without questioning what they\u2019re actually signing into existence.<\/p>\n<p>While some members of Congress are quite happy to waive their rights to actively participate in the lawmaking process, others are wary of granting sole authority to documents that have yet to be seen. Here\u2019s what independent senator Bernie Sanders had to say on the issue in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe Gets Cold Feet on \u201cTTIP,\u201d Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy As almost always, the U.S. government and European Commission are on the same page, reading from the same script. This year they have one overriding goal in common: to create the world\u2019s biggest \u201cfree\u201d trade area by passing the [&hellip;]<\/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":[1272,584,804,805,1133,2738,1132],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-congress","tag-obama","tag-tpp","tag-trade","tag-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership","tag-transpacific-partnership","tag-ttip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","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=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}