TRENDING: TTIP Is Rocketing Up The Global Agenda, Bigger Than TPP

The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – the so-called “free trade” deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States is rocketing up the global agenda with a latest Google Trends result showing that TTIP overtook the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for search results for the first time last month.

 

The uptick in searches for the deal, which critics say is a “corporatist stitch up” designed to enable major corporations access to larger markets across the Atlantic appears to be spurred on by huge demonstrations of anti-TTIP activists across Europe.

 

Hannover, Graz, Berlin, and Vienna are the top cities for the search results, but the issue is also rising in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

 

Curiously, neither TPP or TTIP rank highly in the United States, possibly a sign that U.S. citizens are unaware of the two deals that authorities on both sides of the world are pursuing with vigour.

 

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