The agreement also has a bunch of other controversial items as well, including the ironic enforcement of tougher agricultural standards so that European produce can be sold on the American market. US companies will have unprecedented power in influencing European legislation and safety standards, and they’ll even acquire the right to take European governments to a special court if they enact any sort of policy that endangers the American company’s profits.
Critics had long warned that this is what the agreement has always been about, although they had hitherto been chided as being “conspiracy theorists” for even suggesting that TTIP was a front for an American corporate takeover of Europe.
Now that the cat’s out of the bag, the so-called “conspiracy theory” is the subject of much “conspiracy” analysis.
Alex Bratersky, political commentator at the Gazeta.Ru (studio guest) and Dr. Roslyn Fuller, Research Associate at the Waterford Institute of Technology and author of: Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose, joined us to discuss the topic.
