Responding to the call of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel for the EU-US free trade negotiations (TTIP) to be relaunched, Karoline Graswander-Hainz MEP (S&D, Austria) called for a review of the Commission's negotiation mandate for an agreement that protects the EU's high standards on social and labour standards, consumer protection and the environment.
"It was not possible for TTIP to be concluded under the Obama administration and this was a good thing. Because the agreement would have...