The Austrian Government has also stepped on the train of organisations questioning TTIP
- Following statements by members of the German and French governments on TTIP, it is Austria’s turn. Two significant members of the local government have opposed the EU-US free trade agreement in a matter of hours, while the head of government, Christian Kern, has also criticized the already agreed CETA treaty between Canada and Europe.
Social democracy and the right are in coalition with the Austrian government. Christian Kern is the first. What he has said about the TTIP does not differ much from the arguments used by activists who have been walking against him since the start of the negotiations on the agreement. Kern has essentially said that the TTIP and other free trade agreements are a tool to increase the power of transnational corporations and undermine democratic participation.
Along the same lines, JKrne criticizes the CETA agreement between the EU and Canada and says that Austria is not ready to sign it. The agreement between Canada and the European Union was signed last year and Brussels has expressed its intention to carry out the final ratification process this autumn, in full controversy over its legal nature. In addition to TTIP, Austria was the first European government to condemn CETA. One of the few similar precedents is that of the Walloon Parliament, which passed a decision in April against the agreement with Canada.
In fact, the distrust of those who fight against free trade agreements has spread these days in the face of institutional declarations against the TTIP, which could be a ploy to overlook the ratification process of the CETA. The Twitter message from Viviane Reding, former Vice-President of the European Commission in Luxembourg, was significant: Reding has asked the Luxembourg government to call for a halt to the TTIP negotiations and to adopt CETA as a model. As campaigners against these agreements have often stressed, the entry into force of the CETA would de facto have the same effects as the TTIP.
The Austrian Minister of Economy and Leader of the People’s Party, Reinhold Mitterlehner, also spoke about the TTIP negotiations. The right-wing politician has stated that the whole process should be resumed after the election of the President of the United States.
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