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MORE than three million people across Europe have called for free-trade agreement TTIP to be scrapped.
Global Justice Now director Nick Dearden said the huge number showed that “the EU does not have the public mandate to continue this deal.”
Mr Dearden said that people across Europe are “standing up to protect our labour rights, our environmental standards and vital public services” from the “massive corporate power grab” motivating the secret TTIP negotiations.
The petition initiated by a Europe-wide coalition of trade unions, NGOs and consumer groups reached over three million signatures in one year, just days before it will be delivered to the European Commission in Brussels.
The petition was originally intended to act as a European Citizens Initiative, requiring the Commission to hold a public hearing in the European Parliament.
But last year the Commission ruled the TTIP petition invalid on a technicality, prompting campaigners to accuse them of attempting to stifle democracy.
The decision is currently being challenged in the European Court of Justice.
