Social Europe - Front Against
TTIP (Malta) announced that the European Citizen's self-organised initiative
against TTIP, comprising 230 organisations in 21 European countries has so far
collected more than 800,000 signatures.
"The TTIP
(Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) being negotiated between the
EU and the US risks lowering standards such as workers' rights, environmental
protection and food safety. Secrecy on what is being discussed is not helping
matters".
"TTIP controversially includes
a so-called investor-state dispute settlement mechanism that would enable
multi-national companies to sue nation states in a special court - the
Investor-State Settlement Dispute (ISDS). This would give much less power to
democratically-elected governments".
Social Europe - Front Against
TTIP (Malta) urges the Maltese Government to review its position on the matter,
thus acting in the interests of citizens, workers and consumers.
We urge the general public to
sign the ECI now to help stop the TTIP on https://stop-ttip.org/sign/
Social Europe - Front Against
TTIP (Malta) comprises: Żminijietna - Voice of the Left; Anti-Poverty Alliance;
Moviment Graffitti; Association of Federative Socialists; GWU Youth, ADZ –
Green Youths; Friends of the Earth Malta; Partit Komunista Malti; Garden of
Knowledge (Malta) and Malta Organic Agriculture Movement.
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