Right now, officials in the US and EU are secretly negotiating a hugely influential and dangerous trade deal which would put the profits of big business ahead of our welfare, health and environment. [1]

It’s called the “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership”, or “TTIP” for short, but in reality it’s more like a Christmas-list for big business. The negotiations are shrouded in secrecy, but leaked details suggest the deal will:

- Allow companies to sue governments if they make decisions which negatively affect big business’ potential profits (like capping energy prices, or introducing plain packet cigarettes.) [2]

- Stop future governments from rolling back privatisation of our public services, such as the NHS, energy companies, or the Post Office. [3]

- Relax the rules which protect consumers, our environment, our welfare and health services, to much weaker US levels. [4]

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[1] World Development Movement: EU-US Trade Deal:
http://www.wdm.org.uk/food-and-hunger/eu-us-trade-deal-written-banks-banks
[2] The Guardian: The lies behind this transatlantic deal:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/02/transatlantic-free-trade-deal-regulation-by-lawyers-eu-us
[3] Independent: NHS could be ‘carved open’ by US health profiteers:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-could-be-carved-open-by-us-healthcare-profiteers-warns-shadow-health-secretary-andy-burnham-9292530.html
[4] EurActiv: TTIP means trading away better regulation:
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/science-policymaking/ttip-means-trading-away-better-regulation-301454