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This is great, and I really mean it. We europeans managed somehow to stop not only TTIP but also CETA. Congrats!

Let's see what happens to the TPP in the US during the Congressional lame-duck period (Nov-Dec 2016).

That's great, you managed to keep yourself the lowest growth area in the world, while the rest of the world is gaining wealth by leaps and bounds.

Everyone else is opening up, Europe is hiding in the closet.

Wallonian farmers will pay a much harder price in the long run when the Flemish dump them.

Europe is already the most open market. The way proponents of such treaties try to sell them to us is that, thanks to them, European companies could go fuck other markets as easily as companies from other continents can already come and fuck our markets.

Europe is not an open market for agriculture - and the Walloons are defending their agriculture here.

Also, it's not as open a market as you would think.

If it was there would be massive banking, energy and telecoms consolidation, and there hasn't been.

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