Athwart history, yelling “stop”A MOVEMENT is sweeping across Germany. Its followers say delightedly that it reminds them of the peace protests in the 1980s. At stake today, they claim, is nothing less than democracy itself: multinational companies—especially American ones—are trying to foist their wares on helpless European consumers. These behemoths, the protesters warn, could feed Europeans food that is genetically modified or even toxic, and sue into submission democratic European governments that pass laws the corporate honchos dislike.
Energised by this dystopian vision, more than 100,000 demonstrators are expected on September 17th at protests in Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Their slogan: “Stop CETA and TTIP!” CETA is a free-trade agreement with Canada which the European Union has been negotiating since 2009, slated to be signed next month. TTIP is its bigger sibling, a trade deal with America that has been in talks since 2013. Last month a truck delivered 125,000 signatures in 70 boxes to the supreme court in Karlsruhe to file a case against CETA, the largest such...Continue reading
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