Negotiators from the European Commission and the United States on Friday (18 July) completed another gruelling round of negotiations on
the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP), the sixth so far.
Inside the European Commission’s meeting rooms and in a spillover facility, a specially hired conference hall near Châtelain, the two teams of 100-plus officials sat in opposing lines, poring over technical documents. It was granular stuff, what “some might consider mind-numbingly boring work”, as one official said. But for the US’s chief negotiator, Dan Mullaney, these are the “hard, detailed, fact-based negotiations” needed “[to lay] the foundations for a successful and …read more
Source: European Voice
