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Hundreds of papers from the secretive trade talks between the US and EU have been released online.
They appear to confirm fears that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks between Brussels and Washington will, when ratified, lead to the health service being privatised or dismantled.
The documents, obtained by Greenpeace Netherlands, include a US proposal to have a committee with representatives from Washington and Brussels to meet each year “to review state-owned enterprises and monopolies” which would include the NHS.
The committee would meet annually and would not be guaranteed a representative from Britain.
But it would still be able to review state-run services in this country. Its duties would include checking that state services do not “distort” the market.
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Luckily the Lisbon Treaty requires unanimity from the EU Council for any trade deals which include services; direct foreign investments; audiovisual and cultural services; social, educational and health services; and intellectual property. So that would be knocked back pretty quick by any country that has critical services, including the UK.
You would have thought that Louise Bours who is quoted in that article and has been an MEP since 2014 would know that.