How the U.S.-EU Trade Deal would Grant Sweeping Corporate Privileges

The Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) is in trouble.  Report after report has indicated that the massive U.S.-EU deal is on shaky ground now that the NSA spying scandal has fueled European privacy concerns and botched the hopes of U.S. telecommunications firms to use the deal to downsize data privacy protections. The discovery of an unapproved strain of genetically-modified wheat in Oregon has also thrown water on plans for the deal, stoking European resistance to U.S. agribusiness's calls for TAFTA to be used to dismantle Europe's GMO labeling policies.  And France's refusal to accept Hollywood's demands to fill French TV with U.S. movies has only further crippled prospects for the deal. 

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