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Srikandi - Kerajaan Perancis tidak akan menyokong transatlantik Perdagangan dan Pelaburan Perkongsian (TTIP) di antara Kesatuan Eropah dan Amerika Syarikat sebagai panjang sebagai penetapan kontroversi dimasukkan.
Perancis, seperti UK dan Jerman, akan menyekat perjanjian dagangan yang semua bersama-sama jika mekanisme pelabur ke negeri penyelesaian pertikaian (ISDS) dimasukkan; EurActiv Perancis melaporkan ‘reported’.
Fasal ini muncul dalam perjanjian perdagangan yg paling bebas, & akan mening-galkan Perancis bertahan terhadap syarikat-syarikat asing yang mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadapnya jika undang-undang dan undang2 keuntungan lagak ngeri.
"Perancis tdk mahu ISDS utk dimasukkan ke dlm mandat rundingan," Setiausaha Perancis Negara bagi Perdagangan Luar Negeri, Matthias Fekl kepada Senat Perancis. "Kita perlu memelihara hak negeri untuk menetapkan & menggunakan standard sendiri, utk mengekalkan kesaksamaan sistem keadilan & membenarkan rakyat Perancis, dan DUNIA, untuk menegaskan nilai-nilai mereka," katanya.
Oleh kerana halangan ini, tidak akan ada "kemajuan yang signifikan" dalam perjanjian perdagangan itu, yg telah menjadi titik masam dalam hubungan Amerika Syarikat-EU.
Perancis sebelum ini berkata ‘said’ ia tidak akan menandatangani TTIP selagi Amerika Syarikat terus mengintip sekutu EU.
Perjanjian itu akan menubuhkan perdagangan 'bukan halangan' antara 2 perda-gangan terbesar di DUNIA regions. 2 blok sudah berdagang $1 trillion setiap tahun, dan menukar $4 trillion dalam pelaburan.
Perjanjian perdagangan bebas kontroversi, TTIP yg ditakdirkan utk menjatuhkan halangan kawal selia. Penyokong perjanjian itu mengatakan bahwa ia akan meningkatkan KDNK di EU dgn €100 billion dan di Amerika Syarikat dgn lebih daripada $100 billion, dan juga mewujudkan lebih 700,000 pekerjaan di Amerika. Perda-gangan lebih bebas akan meningkatkan pelaburan, & melebarkan industri eksport akan menambah peluang pekerjaan.
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Penentang TTIP memberi amaran bahawa angka-angka ini tidak realistik dan bahawa barangan dan perkhidmatan yang lebih murah akan mengekang EU dan membantu Amerika Syarikat.
Meningkatkan perdagangan dengan Amerika Syarikat juga boleh datang dengan kos bagi negara-negara Eropah yang mungkin perlu berkompromi dgn kesihatan, keselamatan dan peraturan-peraturan alam sekitar.
Perdagangan transatlantik & Pelaburan Perkongsian (TTIP) antara Amerika Sya-rikat dan Eropah akan mewujudkan zon perdagangan bebas terbesar di DUNIA, tetapi beberapa bimbang ia boleh melonjak menjadi sebuah "economic NATO" dan ramai mengatakan ianya menaikkan kepentingan korporat di atas kepentingan negara. Ahli kesatuan sekerja telah menunjukkan di UK takut perjanjian perda-gangan mega akan membawa kepada jualan besar-besaran aset negeri kpd sektor swasta.
Penunjuk perasaan juga berlaku di Perancis, Jerman, Itali, Sepanyol, Greece, Belanda, Poland, Republik Czech, dan Scandinavia.
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Walaupun blowback politik, British PM David Cameron sekali lagi menyatakan sokongan beliau utk perjanjian itu pada sidang kemuncak G20 summit di Brisbane, Australia hujung minggu lalu.
Ceramah pertama bermula pada Julai 2013, tetapi apa yang pada dokumen itu sendiri telah diselubungi rahsia, dan juga ahli2 parlimen EU tidak akan melihat hasil yang sepenuhnya sehingga mereka perlu mengundi di atasnya.
FRANCE Will not SIGN multi-billion TRANSATLANTIC
Trade DEAL with US in 2015 . . .
The French government will not support the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and US as long as a controversial stipulation is included.
France, like the UK and Germany, will block the trade deal all together if the mechanism of investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is included; EurActiv France reported.
The clause appears in most free trade agreements, and would leave France defenseless against foreign companies taking legal action against it if laws and legislation stunt profits.
"France did not want the ISDS to be included in the negotiation mandate," France's Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Matthias Fekl told the French Senate. "We have to preserve the right of the state to set and apply its own standards, to maintain the impartiality of the justice system and to allow the people of France, and the world, to assert their values," he added.
Due to this stumbling block, there will be no “significant advances” in the trade agreement, which has been a sour point in US-EU relations.
France earlier said it wouldn’t sign the TTIP as long as the US continued spying on EU allies.
The deal would set up 'non-barrier' trade between the world's two biggest trading regions.The two blocs already trade $1 trillion annually, and swap $4 trillion in investment.
A controversial free trade agreement, TTIP is destined to bring down regulatory barriers. Proponents of the deal say that it will boost GDP in the EU by €100 billion and in the US by more than $100 billion, as well as create over 700,000 jobs in America. More free trade would increase investment, and widening export industries would add jobs.
Opponents of TTIP warn that these figures are not realistic and that cheaper goods and services would hurt the EU and help the US.
Boosting trade with the US may also come at a cost for European countries that may need to compromise on health, safety and environmental regulations.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and Europe would create the world's largest free trade zone, but some worry it could balloon into an "economic NATO" and many say it elevates corporate interest above national interest. Trade unionists have demonstrated in the UK fearing the mega trade deal will lead to a massive sale of state assets to the private sector.
Demonstrators have also taken place in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Scandinavia.
Despite the political blowback, British PM David Cameron again pledged his support for the deal at the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia last weekend.
Talks first started in July 2013, but what's on the document itself has been shrouded in secrecy, and even EU parliament members won't see the final product until they have to vote on it.
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