Further to my last blog: I mentioned Peter Prescott saying that all EU member states would have to ratify TTIP before it came into force. And I notice that Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that Labour would resist it in parliament and a Labour government would veto it in the EU .
But I am even less sure now that a veto is possible. According to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), “After the negotiations, the EU member states may not have a veto on the proposed trade agreement with the US (TTIP/TAFTA). “You can read the details here: https://blog.ffii.org/eu-member-states-may-not-have-a-veto-on-ttip-tafta/
But so far I’ve seen nothing to support Owen Jones’s claim that we have anything like an “exemption”.
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