TTIP's smaller brother
While everyone is bickering about TTIP and its imperialist purpose regarding Europe, there's another agreement that's gradually gaining support among the traitorous EU leaders: the Canada-EU free-trade agreement, called CETA.
Just like the US deal, CETA contains a new legal system, open only to foreign corporations and investors - in fact, the general suspicion is that this agreement is the backdoor for US corporations to enter Europe the "other way", posing as Canadian-registered capitals.
A closer look at CETA reveals some alarming facts. Under the CETA stipulations, should the German government for example make a decision, say, to outlaw dangerous chemicals, improve food safety or put cigarettes in plain packaging, a Canadian (read: US) company can sue the German government for "unfairness". Corporate courts have conveniently been stipulated in the agreement, of course, their power overruling that of national legislations. And what does "fairness" mean? Simply they can't make as much profit as they expected. The "trial" would be held at those special tribunals, unelected by the people, unappointed by the people's lawful representatives, overseen and responsible only to corporate lawyers and their corporate overlords.
Beautiful, isn't it?
FYI, almost all EU governments are now actively pushing for CETA (why am I not surprised?). Mine traded its last shreds of national sovereignty by taking the bait that Canada would remove the visas for our citizens in exchange. The only resistance came from Wallonia, the French-speaking portion of Belgium, which, according to Belgian law, can veto decisions of national importance for Belgium - hence, Belgium is the last obstacle to this power-grab. And the EU is pressuring Belgium very fiercely to quit being such a pain in the ass. My prediction is not good: Belgium will cave in, eventually. And Europe will sell its ass to North America sometime within the next couple of months. Congrats!
Just like the US deal, CETA contains a new legal system, open only to foreign corporations and investors - in fact, the general suspicion is that this agreement is the backdoor for US corporations to enter Europe the "other way", posing as Canadian-registered capitals.
A closer look at CETA reveals some alarming facts. Under the CETA stipulations, should the German government for example make a decision, say, to outlaw dangerous chemicals, improve food safety or put cigarettes in plain packaging, a Canadian (read: US) company can sue the German government for "unfairness". Corporate courts have conveniently been stipulated in the agreement, of course, their power overruling that of national legislations. And what does "fairness" mean? Simply they can't make as much profit as they expected. The "trial" would be held at those special tribunals, unelected by the people, unappointed by the people's lawful representatives, overseen and responsible only to corporate lawyers and their corporate overlords.
Beautiful, isn't it?
FYI, almost all EU governments are now actively pushing for CETA (why am I not surprised?). Mine traded its last shreds of national sovereignty by taking the bait that Canada would remove the visas for our citizens in exchange. The only resistance came from Wallonia, the French-speaking portion of Belgium, which, according to Belgian law, can veto decisions of national importance for Belgium - hence, Belgium is the last obstacle to this power-grab. And the EU is pressuring Belgium very fiercely to quit being such a pain in the ass. My prediction is not good: Belgium will cave in, eventually. And Europe will sell its ass to North America sometime within the next couple of months. Congrats!