So much at risk, so little information - Talks on transatlantic trade deal

ON Saturday hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin to protest against a planned trade deal between Europe and the United States which was described by its opponents as being dangerously anti-democratic. 

Demonstrators warned that a deal will lower food safety, workers protections and environmental standards. It would, they say, also facilitate privatisation of the public services generations of Europeans have built up and regard as immutably public.

John Hilary, executive director of campaign group War on Want described a proposed deal proposed as: “An assault on European and US societies by transnational corporations.”