İsveç Radyosu’nda Malmström: TTIP müzakereleri 2017 yılından önce bitmeyecek
İsveç Radyosu’nda Malmström: TTIP müzakereleri 2017 yılından önce bitmeyecek
AB Ticaret Komiseri Cecilia Malmström, haftasonu İsveç Radyosunda katıldığı programda, AB-ABD arasındaki Transatlantik Ticaret ve Yatırım Ortaklığı Anlaşması (TTIP) müzakerelerine ilişkin açıklamalarda bulundu. Malmström demecinde, TTIP müzakerelerinin 2017 yılından önce bitmeyeceğini belirtti.
Negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will not be completed until 2017, EU Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström tells Swedish Radio.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the world’s largest trade agreement and is being negotiated between the European Union and the United States. However, according to Malmström it will be completed in 2017 at the earliest, even though the two parties initially aimed for a 2014 deadline.
“We hope to have come to a point at the end of this year where we have the framework for an agreement, but we will need at least another year after that to cement this,” Malmström told Swedish Radio programme Radiokorrespondenterna. Asked what this means in practice, Malmström replied:
“If there is political will, if we can handle the technicalities and if the Americans can handle making the sacrifices that are part and parcel of any negotiation process, then we could be ready by next year.”
Malmström’s comments come just over a week after the EU’s 28 heads of state, including Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven, met in Brussels to discuss TTIP, among other things.
The European leaders believe that the EU and the US should do everything in their power to ensure that the TTIP negotiations are completed by the end of the year and that the trade agreement will be ambitious and beneficial to both parties.
However, speaking to Swedish Radio, Malmström repeated her warning from last autumn, suggesting that the European leaders’ ambitions are not realistic.
