Objections to US-EU trade deal over secrecy surrounding talks

Paris

OPPOSITION to a sweeping trade deal between the United States and the European Union has gathered strength in Europe in recent weeks, but with a twist: The latest objections have less to do with what is known to be at stake and more about what is unknown.

A leak of documents by Greenpeace, the environmental organisation, in early May added to suspicions about the deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, as opponents turned the three-year debate away from trade issues to a broader denunciation of the secrecy surrounding the talks.