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TTIP Ag Rapporteur Says Parliamentary Votes For TTIP Deal Are Lagging

March 12, 2015 at 9:24 PM
The European Parliament's agricultural rapporteur for the U.S.-EU trade talks on March 4said that his party -- whose support is necessary to pass the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) -- is divided over how a potential deal should handle agricultural issues, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules and an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS). But Paolo De Castro emphasized that the leadership of the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) Group is working hard to convince more S&D members to support TTIP...


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