Publication - February 17, 2016
Find the answers to all these questions at the link below.
- What does TTIP stand for and what is it about?
- What is the focus of negotiations?
- When will a deal be reached?
- What are the environmental risks associated with TTIP?
- What is ISDS and what is wrong with it?
- Is the Commission’s new Investment Court System better than ISDS?
- Can we trust that the European Commission will not weaken EU standards on the environment?
- What would be the economic advantages of a comprehensive EU-US trade agreement?
- Is the Commission as transparent as can be expected during complex and sensitive negotiations?
- What is Greenpeace’s alternative to TTIP?
- Is public resistance to TTIP confined to a radical European minority?
- Opposition to TTIP might slow its completion, but is a deal inevitable?
- What would happen if the EU and US failed to agree a deal?
- If it is bad news for the EU, is TTIP good news for the US?
- What is regulatory cooperation and why is it a threat?
- What is CETA and why do you also oppose it?
- Is Greenpeace anti-trade?
- US enforcement of air pollution standards led to the discovery of emissions cheating by Volkswagen. Is this not a perfect example of why Europeans should not be scared of TTIP?
- A car that is sold in the EU cannot be sold in the US without being significantly re-engineered to fit different specifications. Why should Americans and Europeans not drive the same cars?
- What’s wrong with rinsing chickens in a water and chlorine bath?
- Americans have been growing and eating GM crops for years. Why do you not want GMOs in Europe?
- What are the implications of a TTIP agreement on EU energy imports and exports and for renewables?
- Can individual sectors be excluded from a future TTIP deal?
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