The European Parliament has postponed a
critical debate and vote on the EU-US trade talks negotiations known as TTIP
the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership]. The MEPs were supposed to
vote today on the EU’s negotiating position on the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership talks. But divisions among
MEPs within the Parliament’s second-biggest block led to the postponement.
There’s disquiet in Europe over a controversial investor protection clause known
as an ISDS [Investor State Dispute Settlement clause] being negotiated. The
Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy is against a TTIP deal.  

Out words: citizens’ rights

Dur: 00:27 

Interview with Sinn Fein MEP Liadh Ni Riada on TTIP. In the interview she discusses the threats she sees that TTIP poses to Ireland’s cultural industries and other issues. 

The Sinn Fein MEP is calling for a
‘cultural exclusion’ clause for Ireland in any free trade deal brokered between
the EU and the US. The European Parliament has made a number of recommendations
to the European Commission for its Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership [TTIP] talks with the US. Ms Ni Riada says any such free trade deal
could jeopardise Irish cultural and audio-visual industries. She says Ireland
should be entitled to the same cultural exclusion clause that France managed to
broker.

Out words: that industry

Dur: 
00:30