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Dear supporter,
In spring last year, you participated in the ‘no2isds’ online action to tell the European Commission that no special tribunals for big businesses should be included in a possible EU-US trade agreement (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – TTIP). These secret tribunals would allow companies to sue countries when laws or regulations that protect citizens and our environment get in the way of their profits.
Your signature has helped to put the European Commission under pressure. In collaboration with other groups and networks, we collected over 145,000 people’s voices which all expressed outright rejection of the dangerous tribunals. This represents an overwhelming majority of the almost 150,000 contributions to the consultation.
But our opposition is in danger of being ignored.
Former EU trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht referred to our mobilisation as “an outright attack” because of the similarity of the responses. Now his successor Cecilia Malmström presented a first analysis of the consultation results. She recognised the overwhelming opposition to ISDS, yet the European Commission is unwilling to scrap it. We need to make sure that our message comes out loud and clear: European citizens don’t want ISDS in the EU-US trade deal, or any other trade deal.
Here is how you can help to ensure that this is the only lesson the European Commission draws from the consultation:
Tweet to the Commissioners responsible for ISDS, send them an E-mail or share our infographic on Facebook.
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