MOSCOW (June) – The video was released a day before the European Parliament postponed a preliminary non-binding vote on the controversial and secretive free trade treaty.
“It opens the NHS and other public services to increase privatization by US companies… It reduces our ability to fight climate… It could allow US food companies to force meat made with hormones and chemicals into EU markets,” the Artists Against TTIP group, including world famous designer Vivienne Westwood, said in the video published on its website.
An economic assessment by the European Union acknowledged that the TTIP would cost at least one million jobs, the group reported.
The artists also warned that the TTIP would transfer power from democratically elected governments to large multinational corporations.
“Say no to TTIP,” Vivienne Westwood said at the end the video.
Over 2.1 million people have signed an online petition against the TTIP and a similar deal with Canada, known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.
On April 18, waves of protests against the TTIP spread across Europe, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to express their dissatisfaction at the speed and secrecy of the treaty negotiations and the treaty's negative impacts.
