In May the European business leadersand politicians arriving in Brussels for the annual conference on the state of European industry were greeted by hundreds of protestors trying to form a human chain around the summit’s conference center. Police turned water cannons on the crowd. Reportedly, between 100 and 280 demonstrators were detained for protesting without the required permit.
For a change, this protest wasn’t about the European Union’s pro-austerity economic policies. Instead, the demonstrators opposed a proposed trade deal between the United States and European Union, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). What had them especially riled: a routine provision involving international arbitration.
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