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"en.20150707.4.2-093-000"2
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"Madam President, we are the democratic arm of the EU institutions. Our job is to stand up for citizens and to tell you what they want, and I can tell you very clearly: they do not want TTIP. Well over 2 million have already petitioned the Commission to stop negotiating in their name. The only reason there are not more of them is that many people still do not know what TTIP is. TTIP is a threat to our public services and our democratic rights. It threatens to undermine the standards we fought for in areas such as air quality, water quality, safe food and animal welfare. It threatens the livelihoods of farmers in the South—West of the UK and across Europe.
More trade is not the solution to our problems. It is a way to allow corporations to take control of more of our economy, and that is why they are driving this agenda. As a continent we are currently facing massive crises in Greece, with migrants in the Mediterranean, with conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine and with climate change. These are the problems we should be focusing on rather than wasting money on negotiations for a treaty that only serves corporations."@en1
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