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EU Commissioner: “I do not take my mandate from the European people.”

#1 User is offline   mgoetze 

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Posted 2015-October-14, 02:29

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When put to her, Malmström acknowledged that a trade deal has never inspired such passionate and widespread opposition. Yet when I asked the trade commissioner how she could continue her persistent promotion of the deal in the face of such massive public opposition, her response came back icy cold: “I do not take my mandate from the European people.”

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Posted 2015-October-14, 04:15

Wow, TTIP is so unbelievably bad. And we have no say in the matter... If the UK does not have an opt-out available, then there will be no question of a "yes" vote on the referendum. IF enough people hear about it.

Thanks, Michael, for bringing it to our attention. Now can you do the same for everyone else in Europe?
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Posted 2015-October-14, 04:21

UK will almost certainly opt for TTIP anyway, even if they were to leave the EU. See for example http://leftfootforwa...e-trade-deals/. (OK, it may be possible to find a more objective source than leftfoodforward).
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Posted 2015-October-14, 04:28

 Vampyr, on 2015-October-14, 04:15, said:

Thanks, Michael, for bringing it to our attention. Now can you do the same for everyone else in Europe?

I wish I could!

Funny, really, I've been hearing about TTIP regularly for a year or so already, but I guess that's due to how I source my information. It's quite unfathomable to me how many people are still completely in the dark.
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Posted 2015-October-14, 04:34

 mgoetze, on 2015-October-14, 04:28, said:

I wish I could!

Funny, really, I've been hearing about TTIP regularly for a year or so already, but I guess that's due to how I source my information. It's quite unfathomable to me how many people are still completely in the dark.


Well that is exactly the way they want it.

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Posted 2015-October-14, 04:41

 helene_t, on 2015-October-14, 04:21, said:

UK will almost certainly opt for TTIP anyway, even if they were to leave the EU. See for example http://leftfootforwa...e-trade-deals/. (OK, it may be possible to find a more objective source than leftfoodforward).


Oh Lord.

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Posted 2015-October-14, 11:04

 mgoetze, on 2015-October-14, 04:28, said:

I wish I could!

Funny, really, I've been hearing about TTIP regularly for a year or so already, but I guess that's due to how I source my information. It's quite unfathomable to me how many people are still completely in the dark.

I can imagine a lot of people are still in the dark, but at least in the Netherlands they owe that to themselves. TTIP pops up regularly in the media here: newspapers, radio, national TV discussion programs, the news at 7, 8 as well as the news specially aimed at 18-35 year olds.

Those who only watch Dancing with the stars, Who wants to be a supermodel?, Dr. Phil and the odd soccer game probably think that TTIP is the next generation internet.

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Posted 2015-October-14, 13:03

If left unhindered, will the current state of worldwide income inequality lead to some type of commoners revolt in this century or the next?
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