The European Union and the USA have been negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) behind closed doors since 2013. Negotiators kept insisting that their secret talks would work in the best interest of the public and the environment. But since Greenpeace leaked the TTIP draft negotiating documents it became clearer than ever, that this trade agreement could become one of the most dangerous weapons in the hands of the fossil fuel industry in its effort to kill Climate Action for the 21st century.
,Das Transatlantische Freihandelsabkommen (TTIP) zwischen der Europäischen Union und den USA droht unsere Energiewende zu kippen', mahnt Gerfried Bohlen, Vorstandsvorsitzender der bundesweit aktiven Energiegenossenschaft Rhein Ruhr eG (EGRR).
Diesmal wollten die Unterhändler von USA und EU endlich zur Sache kommen. Aus Angst, dass der Brexit eine Einigung weiter erschweren könnte, wollten sie den Grundstein für das Freihandelsabkommen TTIP legen.