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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)

...with the signing of the CETA agreement with Canada and the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. As Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Mr. Xavier Bettel, made clear recently, “during the Luxembourg Presidency, TTIP will not belong in a darkroom”. Therefore, a public debate will be organised by the Presidency in November in Brussels. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)

Seán Kyne: .... It will be sent to the institutions and I am sure Mr. Engelberg will receive an official copy of it, if he has not already done so. Mr. Engleberg mentioned the public debate in November on TTIP. What is the Luxembourg Government's opinion on the investor state dispute settlement, ISDS, arrangements? From what we hear, some of the larger states have concerns about it. Several weeks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)

...assured them that, as always, Luxembourg will be an honest broker and will try to help everyone find proper solutions. Luxembourg like other countries is very concerned about certain aspects of TTIP, particularly ISDS. We very much expressed the view that dispute settlements are still for national parliaments and systems. In May, Luxembourg was among five countries which proposed an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)

John Halligan: The difficulty with TTIP initially related to the proprietary negotiations that took place. Some 96% of the people involved in those negotiations represented corporate bodies, and the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the Human Rights Committee in Europe, for instance, were excluded. Even in America, many democrats and almost all of the trade union movement - like the trade...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)

H.E. Mr. Patrick Engelberg: It is indeed sometimes interesting to notice that all the problems with TTIP raised in Europe find their echo in the US. We are not the only ones having problems with certain aspects of it, such as transparency and secrecy, as Deputy Halligan mentioned, and investor state dispute settlement, ISDS, as the Vice Chairman mentioned. There are similar concerns in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)

Seán Kyne: Commissioner Malmström appeared before the committee earlier in the year to discuss TTIP and talk about the transparency issues, and she gave a full account. She also attended the plenary session of COSAC in Riga a number of weeks ago. I thank the ambassador for his presentation and his engagement on a wide variety of issues. I wish him every success during the six months of...