Anti-TTIP activists hijack EU's online public consultation
Brussels
EUROPEAN campaigners against an EU-US accord have held up progress towards the world's biggest free trade deal by deluging an online public consultation that European Union officials had hoped would help them unblock a key issue.
Of almost 150,000 submissions to the public forum on how to protect businesses from unfair government interference, over 95 per cent were from supporters of a small group of organisations hostile to a deal with Washington and who submitted identical or very similar responses, two EU officials have told Reuters.
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