Back in 2012, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed a proposed transatlantic free trade pact as a job-creating, growth-boosting “economic NATO” that would forge new ties between old allies.
Three years later, hopeful presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears less enthusiastic.
“Can you make it go away?” was the only-half-joking response of her campaign chairman, John Podesta, to a recent question on the trade deal now being negotiated between the United States and European Union.
This has been excerpted from the 17 September 2015 edition of POLITICO and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.politico.eu/article/will-ttip-be-an-economic-nato/