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Greenpeace publishes confidential US-EU trade deal documents
Published Mon, May 2, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Berlin
A SWEEPING free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and the United States would lower food safety and environmental standards, Greenpeace said on Monday, citing confidential documents from the talks.
But the European Commission said the documents reflected negotiating positions, not any final outcome, and the EU's chief negotiator dismissed some of Greenpeace's points as "flatly wrong".
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