Melech 9,900 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Over a million people in the EU signed a petition to prevent negotiations on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and not ratify the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the US and Canada respectively because they include several critical issues that pose a threat to democracy and the rule of law. © SPUTNIK. ALEXANDER SMOTROV Scottish Trade Union Body Warns of Job Losses Over EU-US Trade Deal MOSCOW, December 4 (Sputnik)  More than a million people all over the European Union have signed a petition urging the EU to stop negotiations with the United States on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and not ratify the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. As of 09:00 GMT, 1,002, 472 people have signed the Stop TTIP and CETA petition, according to the campaign's website. "We want to prevent TTIP and CETA because they include several critical issues such as investor-state dispute settlement and rules on regulatory cooperation that pose a threat to democracy and the rule of law. We want to prevent lowering of standards concerning employment, social, environmental, privacy and consumers and the deregulation of public services (such as water) and cultural assets from being deregulated in non-transparent negotiations," the petition says. EU, US Leaders Reaffirm Negotiations on Trade Agreement: EU Commission The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) are controversial initiatives aimed at deregulating markets between the EU and the US and between the EU and Canada, respectively, to ease the flow of goods and services across the Atlantic. CETA was signed in September and is currently pending approval by the European Parliament, while the TTIP, negotiated in January, is still under debate. The Stop TTIP petition was founded by the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), an alliance of some 300 European organizations. According to the campaign website, the petition must collect a minimum of one million of signatures within a year "to be successful." That success is defined by the campaign as forcing a legal condition on the European Commission to provide a formal response explaining why it is accepting or rejecting the TTIP. In September, however, the European Commission refused ECI"s request to register Stop TTIP, stating that the petition does not qualify for such a reply. The ECI have launched a legal challenge to this decision. http://sputniknews.com/business/20141204/1015487061.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpe 916 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 A million, woah, and it probably keeps increasing with every hour! MAKE IT WORK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyQueen 2,409 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Most of them are from east Europe! EU has population over 500 million! 1 million is a half population of my country Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 A million, woah, and it probably keeps increasing with every hour! It's around 1,2 million now. Especially people from Germany,France,UK,Finland,Austria and Slovenia signes it Everyone who wants so sign,do it here https://stop-ttip.org Most of them are from east Europe! EU has population over 500 million! 1 million is a half population of my country https://stop-ttip.org/signatures-member-states/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc 4,776 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 why would you sign this? better relations with the US is good. Dont know why this would be seen as a threat. And the source is Russian. Obviously anti-EU source. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 why would you sign this? better relations with the US is good. Dont know why this would be seen as a threat. And the source is Russian. Obviously anti-EU source. No thanks http://stop-ttip.org/what-is-the-problem-ttip-ceta/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionic 50,111 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 let me sign using my Swedish address Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I read the link and it says this will only benefit big corporations and lower standards. (Who is surprised?) Fracking is questionable so you should not allow it in Europe tbh. Also jobs and the other things shouldn't be threatened. Sounds like EU just being lured by big corporations. Are people against the Canada trade too? Because I see it's up for ratification. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,861 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 U never wanna deregulate water or privatize it... If my Province (Ontario) privatized water, my family of 6 ppl that use a tone of water between long showers, landry loads, watering lawn (in summer) would not be paying a mere $30-$40 a month!!! Electricity and water is a bad idea to privatize cause their profit margins is what will squeeze not only households but other businesses too slowing economic growth Im a great believer in deregulation, and low taxes and encouraging business investment and letting the private sector do their job of creating jobs and economic growth to generate wealth However there are some exeptions of things the Government should run such as water and electricity. Theres also economic advantages to free healthcare although it would take a while to explain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,861 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I read the link and it says this will only benefit big corporations and lower standards. (Who is surprised?) Fracking is questionable so you should not allow it in Europe tbh. Also jobs and the other things shouldn't be threatened. Sounds like EU just being lured by big corporations. Are people against the Canada trade too? Because I see it's up for ratification.Europeans hate Canadas oil industry sayin its destructive I got news for you... Most new oil developments isnt in liquid oil. Thats already peaked... 2/3 of the worlds reserves that became unlocked due to new technologies now exist in unconventional oil reserves such as oil sands or shale oil So what u gonna do? Sanction or cut trade with every Country experiencing an energy boom with these new unconventional reserves? Im sorry but thats lame and stupid The best way to fight the industry while simultaneously not killing the economy is by encouraging green development and eliminating the need for fossil fuels at the source to begin with Some environmentalists instead focus their energy on trying to stop each individual projects (like pipelines) and stuff. Its dumb cause its not truly effective and it puts economic pressure and political gridlock and dysfunction :shrug: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miker 5,683 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Europeans hate Canadas oil industry sayin its destructive I got news for you... Most new oil developments isnt in liquid oil. Thats already peaked... 2/3 of the worlds reserves that became unlocked due to new technologies now exist in unconventional oil reserves such as oil sands or shale oil So what u gonna do? Sanction or cut trade with every Country experiencing an energy boom with these new unconventional reserves? Im sorry but thats lame and stupid The best way to fight the industry while simultaneously not killing the economy is by encouraging green deelopment and eliminating the need for fossil fuels at the source to begin with Some environmentalists instead focus their energy on trying to stop individual projects (like pipelines) and stuff. Its dumb cause its not truly effective and it puts economic pressure and political gridlock and dysfunction I agree with you totally. Mars..........or bust! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey 3,017 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Wow talk about pressed. Why do they have to hate on American and Canadian ingenuity? it's not like they'll affect it anyways. Full steam ahead! "I am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."—US President Donald J. Trump Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Europeans hate Canadas oil industry sayin its destructive I got news for you... Most new oil developments isnt in liquid oil. Thats already peaked... 2/3 of the worlds reserves that became unlocked due to new technologies now exist in unconventional oil reserves such as oil sands or shale oil So what u gonna do? Sanction or cut trade with every Country experiencing an energy boom with these new unconventional reserves? Im sorry but thats lame and stupid The best way to fight the industry while simultaneously not killing the economy is by encouraging green deelopment and eliminating the need for fossil fuels at the source to begin with Some environmentalists instead focus their energy on trying to stop individual projects (like pipelines) and stuff. Its dumb cause its not truly effective and it puts economic pressure and political gridlock and dysfunction I actually agree with this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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