TTIP

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement between the U.S. and the European Union appears to have been resurrected, following Germany’s insistence that bilateral deals between the U.S. and EU member states are not going to happen.

Dr. Peter Navarro, assistant to U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Director of the White House National Trade Council, has hinted on Breitbart News Daily that recent comments concerning the revival of a U.S./EU trade deal are off-base. He confirmed the administration “prefers bilateral deals” and a similar North American trade agreement is due for the chopping block.

Dr. Peter Navarro, White House National Trade Council director, spoke with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily about President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” order and his call for an investigation of foreign steel dumping.

In the first joint press conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the German leader claimed that a trade deal between the U.S. and the EU would be like a trade deal between two countries.

Bern (AFP) – Switzerland’s economy minister said Sunday he wants to have “background” talks with Britain so that a trade deal can be in place as soon as the UK leaves the European Union (EU). “My objective is clear. Not

The economist and academic hotly tipped to be President Trump’s ambassador to the European Union told the Breitbart News Daily Show that “TTIP is a non starter” and won’t progress under the Trump administration. Speaking to Breitbart London Editor in

Britain could become “the Singapore of the western world” if she seizes upon the opportunities currently before her, a former chief White House trade negotiator has said.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is effectively “dead and buried” now that President Donald J. Trump has indicated a move away from multilateral trading blocs, a conservative think tank has said. On Monday, just days after taking the

European Union (EU) leaders have used a summit with President Barack Obama in Berlin to reaffirm sanctions against Russia and snub Donald Trump on globalisation, NATO, and climate change.

The President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, has unleashed a mean-spirited assault on President-elect Donald Trump, claiming that Mr. Trump didn’t know about Europe and that it would waste two years while he learned. Mr. Juncker, who was

The European Union is conceding defeat over the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership hailed by President Barack Obama and Democrat Party candidate Hillary Clinton following the election of Republican Donald Trump. Protests against the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The head of the Belgian region of Wallonia on Wednesday said he still refused to sign off on a EU-Canada trade accord and asked that a visit by Canadian premier Justin Trudeau be delayed.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of people protested Saturday in Warsaw against free-trade agreements that the European Union is pursuing with the U.S. and Canada, saying they will hurt Polish farmers and consumers. The rally was organized by a non-governmental

MADRID (AP) — Several hundred people have protested in Madrid against the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a major free trade deal between the United States and the European Union. The protesters Saturday also urged officials not to approve the

Populism is a “virus” that poses the main threat to the European Union (EU) project, European Council President Donald Tusk warned in an address to an influential Brussels think tank with close ties to the Open Society Foundations.

BRATISLAVA (AFP) – A last-gasp push to seal a landmark free trade deal between the European Union and the United States before the end of Barack Obama’s presidency has failed, EU ministers agreed on Friday. “It is not realistic to reach the

(AFP) – European trade ministers scramble Friday to salvage talks on a massive free trade deal with the US amid growing calls in key powers France and Germany to abandon negotiations. Ministers from the EU’s 28 member states meeting in

Brussels (AFP) – Several thousand demonstrators gathered outside EU institutions in Brussels on Tuesday to protest against huge transatlantic trade deals linking Europe with Canada and the United States. The protests came after mass rallies in German cities on Saturday

The European Union (EU) could sue the UK, attempting to stop Britain forming trade links with major nations before it has fully left the block, the government has been warned.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people protested in European cities on Saturday against planned free trade deals with the United States and Canada they say would undermine democracy and lower food safety, environmental and labour standards. Organisers —

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union should keep negotiating with the United States on a new free trade deal known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The EU and the US are officially

A leading pollster in Austria is predicting a win for anti-mass migration candidate Norbert Hofer as Hofer praises government ministers who have taken a harder line on mass migration.

(AFP) – France will ask the European Commission to halt negotiations on a massive trade deal between the European Union and the United States, the country’s junior minister for trade said Tuesday. “There is no more political support in France

In a scene reminiscent of the “Ship of Fools” in Plato’s “Republic” and displaying the worst of two-tier Europe cliquishness, “core” EU leaders: Italian PM Renzi, French President Hollande and German Chancellor Merkel aboard an Italian aircraft carrier announced their

You’d think, by reading the BBC coverage at least, that Hillary Clinton is dead opposed to big, corporate, globalist trade deals like the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Andrew Walker writes today, as the Germans declare the “free trade deal”

The TTIP negotiations, designed to forge a trade deal between the EU and the USA have collapsed, German’s economy minister has announced.

AFP — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday blasted a planned EU-US trade treaty, saying the ambitious deal was against “EU interests.” “No free trade agreement should be concluded if it does not respect EU interests. Europe should be

The European Union (EU) plans to bypass national parliaments to implement controversial “free trade” deals, sources have revealed. A leaked letter to the EU’s trade commissioner reveals the Italian government supports blocking democracy on CETA, the “little sister” of the

Kevin L. Kearns, president of the U.S. Business & Industry Council, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the effect of free-trade policies on America’s “Main Street companies.”

“It doesn’t mean the death of TTIP,” stressed European Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom when pushed by reporters on whether or not the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would be completed by the end of 2016. The deal, pushed hard by the

(AFP) – Germany’s economy minister lashed out at Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “wrong” stance on a huge EU-US free trade pact in an interview to be published Monday, signalling a deepening rift within the government over the controversial accord.

The National Health Service (NHS) would be imperiled if Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU), Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England has warned. But Mr Stevens conceded that much of the pressure currently felt by the

Faced with becoming only the second British Prime Minister in a century to be defeated on his Queen’s Speech, David Cameron has avoided embarrassment by surrendering to the demands of eurosceptic Tory rebels over protecting the National Health Service (NHS) from the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal.

Eurosceptic Tory rebels are threatening to vote down the Queen’s Speech unless Prime Minister David Cameron agrees to a Labour Party amendment to exempt the National Health Service (NHS) from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 25 potential Tory rebels are reportedly

The Greek government is ready to veto the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal unless its feta cheese industry receives special protections. A document from the country’s Ministry of Economy, seen by Euractiv.com, says Athens is not optimistic about

A senior government minister in Germany has cast doubt on the future of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) because of reluctance from the U.S. to make “any serious concessions”. Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Christian Schmidt, has accused the U.S. of having