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Obama Endorses TTIP Deal This Year, Political Oversight Steps Up In May

April 28, 2016 at 9:17 PM
President Obama this week endorsed the completion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) by the end of 2016, but acknowledged that this will not include ratification. "I don't anticipate that we will be able to have completed ratification of a deal by the end of the year, but I do anticipate that we can have completed the agreement," he said in an April 24 press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after their bilateral meeting in Germany. "At...

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