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16 Mai 2014

Autor:
Tanja Milevska, EurActiv

Hundreds of protesters arrested in Brussels as business leaders debate ‘maintaining citizen’s trust’

240 people were arrested on Thursday (15 May) around the European Business Summit venue in Brussels during non-violent protests organised by trade unions and citizens’ groups.  The protestors had gathered to denounce the budgetary austerity policies in Europe, and the ongoing talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA, which they say is being negotiated “in total opacity”.  ‘We don’t want more business in Europe’...“We don’t want more business in Europe, we want more democracy in Europe and that’s what people want, not what multinationals want,” Van Keirsblick said...For the protesters, it was a “sign that our politicians are bowing down before business interests”...“When Mexico and the United States twenty years ago started NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Area, they said it would create a million jobs.  They’ve lost millions of jobs. Even the figures coming from the European Commission say that very, very little jobs will be created, but people must know that this possible creation of jobs –that never occurs – is only for some little groups, for the richest people.  The free trade area between EU and USA will destroy jobs, social protection and environmental rights, especially in the South, the East and for the poor in Europe,” the unions declared...

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