European Commission Email Charges U.S. Not Ready To Make TTIP Deal This Year

The European Commission late last week told member states that the United States is not yet willing to make the kind of concessions on the EU’s key agricultural priorities that are necessary to strike a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal this year. A May 27 email to member state ambassadors says that “more engagement on issues of EU interest is needed if negotiations are to be concluded under the Obama administration.” It also says that the U.S. administration “does...