What's TTIP? It feels like I should know.
click the videos and you shall see.
Click the petition link and you will be able to read.
Here is the Swedish Stop TTIP site which explains it a lot better then I do:
http://www.stoppattip.se/10-saker-om-ttip.html
Basically its a trade agreement between the USA and the EU that will let large corporations make more money because of the following things:
- Countries can now be sued for theoretical profit loss due to their laws for environmental, health and food standards
- Extreme reductions of environmental regulations
- Extreme reductions of health regulations
- Extreme reductions of food regulations
- Extreme reductions of labour regulations
- Huge Loss of jobs because some huge corporation over on the other side of the world will take your place and do it cheaper.
- Consumer laws will no longer protect us to the degree they do now.
This whole thing is a total surrender of your countries laws and rights to be subject to the whims of international corporations.
Expect things like lakes in natural parks to be drained by companies who sued the hack out of your government and forced them to remove the parks environmental protection laws through the European court.
TTIP is simular in ways to TPP, just worse, since Europe has the highest standards in the world and TTIP is pretty much a total corporate takeover of our governments.
We can't do shit about it after the EU signs it. Notice I say EU. This is because EU officials are negotiating this deal and not our own governments. Because we are part of the EU the laws the EU makes are law for our countries too. TTIP would mean our countries laws will no longer apply because EU laws will be changed under TTIP to accomodate corporations with the ability to sue European countries over their laws and regulations over theoretical profit loss. It will also allow corporations to sue the EU over its laws and force our hands into removing laws and introducing laws that we dont want.
Example. if you are against Genetic Manipulated Foods (GMO foods), then you should realize that these companies will be able to sue the hack out of everyone to force their GMO food products down our throats.
There I gave you the summery.
