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Petition against huge US-EU trade deal passes key threshold
Published Thu, Dec 4, 2014 · 09:50 PM
Brussels
OPPONENTS to a controversial trade pact between the EU and the United States passed a key threshold on Thursday securing one million signatures on a petition they hope will force Brussels to abandon the deal.
European and US negotiators have been in talks for more than a year to create the world's biggest free-trade and investment agreement, the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
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