Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will weaken EU: Greenpeace

A sweeping free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the US would lower food safety and environmental standards, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said yesterday, citing confidential documents from the talks.

But the European Commission said the documents reflected negotiating positions, not any final outcome, and the EU’s chief negotiator dismissed some of Greenpeace’s points as “flatly wrong”.

The US Trade Representative’s office also rejected them. While it would not comment on the “validity of alleged leaks,” a spokesman said “the interpretations being given to these texts appear to be misleading at best and flat-out wrong at worst.”