Trade deal is a vested-interest juggernaut

For the past three years, the EU and US have been negotiating to create the

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What is TTIP?

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a free trade agreement being negotiated between the EU and the US, which, between them, have 40% of world GDP and a daily trade worth €2bn.

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