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Brussels: Tens of Thousands March Against Free Trade Deals

HeadlineSep 21, 2016

In Brussels, Belgium, as many as 15,000 people marched Tuesday to demand the EU abandon two controversial trade deals: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the EU and the U.S., and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada. This is one of the protesters.

Igor Lacoste: “The aim of the treaty is to remove all barriers nonrelated to tariffs to allow, they say, more competitivity, free trade, free market. But the problem is that those barriers also include food controls, food security, safety of the food chain. And that is not something we can tolerate as citizens, as human beings, fathers.”

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, known as TTIP, would be the largest trade deal in the world. It’s faced resistance both in the U.S. and across Europe.

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