Consumer watchdogs, Internet activists and European farmers are gearing up to fight the planned trade agreement between Europe and the United States. Many in Europe are worried that politicians will make backroom deals at the expense of consumers. […]
Jérémie Zimmermann, one of the organizers of the anti-ACTA movement, believes the time will soon come for new protests. The spokesman for the Paris-based organization La Quadrature du Net can prove that old paragraphs from the failed ACTA were inserted into a preliminary version of the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which the European Commission is currently negotiating with the Canadians and whch could serve as a blueprint for the treaty with the Americans. […]
“It’s a favorite game of the entertainment industry to hijack free trade agreements for their own purposes,” says Zimmermann. He sees democracy at risk when negotiations concerning the future of all people are conducted behind closed doors. “Millions of citizens can be mobilized if their freedoms are threatened,” he says. […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/plan-for-trans-atlantic-trade-agreement-could-founder-on-eu-concerns-a-885596.html