Greenpeace Aftermath: Public Citizen Rates Reg Proposals ‘Affirmatively Hostile’

Public Citizen, after reading the regulatory cooperation proposals in the TTIP drafts leaked Sunday by Greenpeace Netherlands and sent around the world for interested parties to nod or shake their heads, has this verdict : “Taken in their entirety, the U.S. proposals are affirmatively hostile to the precautionary principle.” As part of ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, they pose “a major threat to health, safety, environmental, labor, consumer, civil and political rights, and other regulatory protections. The U.S...