Very shortly here are the main dangers of the Trans-Atlantic "Free Trade" Agreement :
FOOD SAFETY: Our safety standards, much stricter than American standards and the "international standards" (levels of pesticides, bacterial contamination, toxic additives, GMOs, hormones, etc.) could be condemned as "illegal trade barriers" standards.
SHALE GAS: European governments no longer would regulate exports of natural gas to the nations TAFTA. Hydraulic fracturing could become a law for companies that might require damages from nations that oppose it.
JOBS : Companies wishing to relocate in states affected by the project TAFTA where wages are lower, would be protected. The Survey and the Labour Code becoming illegal, no more notice of termination. Employment center should be privatized or be sued by temporary companies for unfair competition. The consequences of TAFTA on the unemployment rate in Europe would only be harmful.
HEALTH & RETIREMENT: Drugs could be patented longer, pharma groups could block the distribution of generics. Emergency services could be privatized. Private insurance could sue the CPAM (Primair fund health insurance) for unfair competition. The PAYG could be dismantled, the insurance companies would replace the CRAM ARRCO AGIRC (French national pension funds)...
WATER & ENERGY: These assets would be privatized. Any Opposing municipality could be charged with obstruction of freedom of trade, ditto for energy, whether fossil, nuclear or renewable. Nuclear safety would be reduced. The price of gas and KW would be free.
FREEDOM & PRIVACY: As the public revolt, companies hoping to lock up and monopolize the Internet have failed last year to pass their repressive ACTA; more pernicious texts are in the TAFTA.
PUBLIC SERVICES: The TAFTA would limit the power of states to regulate public services such as personal services, road, rail, etc. and reduce the principles of universal and wide access to these critical needs.
CULTURE & ARTS PRODUCTION: Large producers of audiovisual could ban private or professional low budget productions like youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, collaborative funding would be made ââillegal. National museums would lose their right of preemption on the national art treasures for the benefit of private collectors.
EDUCATION: Private universities could sue the Ministry of Education for unfair competition. From kindergarten to doctorate, private companies would challenge schools, school canteens and university restaurant, any municipal, regional or national subsidies.
We all know the damages caused by the NAFTA :
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/nafta-chapter-11-increasing-threat-public-good
The European commission mandated for the negotiation - supported by France - to transform EU and USA into a single market and subjugate the peoples to the law of private companies, that is to say, the law of profit alone.
An other world is possible than the one multinational companies are preparing for their benefits.
SAY NO TO TAFTA!
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