Dispute between nation-states, Brussels goes to the heart of EU problems: Pundit

Press TV's interview with Tony Gosling, an investigative journalist from Bristol:

Press TV: France, Italy, and Germany’s top politicians have all blasted the TTIP deal as very lopsided in favor of US multinationals, your thoughts.

Gosling: The dispute between the nation-states and Brussels really goes to the heart of the problems at the European Union. We know these problems, don’t we? With the eurozone financial collapse in many countries in southern Europe, with the migrant crisis as well, and also with Britain signaling that the British people have had enough with Brussels, which is going to stop almost certainly an avalanche of people leaving the EU.

This shows you the problem… the European Union, Brussels, loves TTIP and the nation-states hate it. So the European Union is not expressing the will of not only the people but also the governments so out of touch in Brussels in their ivory towers.

What’s really going on here and I quote you David Rockefeller speaking back in 1999, the bigger picture, “Somebody has to take governments’ place,” said Rockefeller back in Newsweek on first of February 1999. And business seems to me a logical entity to do it. This is part of that process. This is part of the power elite deciding what is going to happen to us. They see governments and actually Western media as well in the old days but they’ve been coopted largely as in the way of what they want to do. They see democratic parliaments and governments as a threat and they see good investigative journalism, proper journalism, and balanced journalism as a threat. And so, they’ve been very very busy trying to dismantle all of those pillars of democratic society.

Press TV: What’s the point for continuing these talks? I mean initially I think it is 24 chapters and I believe it is 27 when they haven’t agreed on one single chapter of the text. Why are they continuing these talks and wasting tax-payers’ money?

Gosling: These pliable officials at the European Union are just going to press on regardless, because they ignore any calls either from nation-state politicians or from the people. They may sign it even on Britain’s behalf before Britain officially leaves the European Union, but if they do, they’re traitors.

The trade ministry by the way here in Britain has a really checkered history. Some of the worst politicians, most corrupt politicians have been trade ministers back in the 1980s. Trade minister Leon Brittan, he was found with sex abuse videos of children in his car at Dover by ... customs officer back in 1982. And it means of course this kind of person is open to blackmail.

I think those are the types of politicians that have been pushed into these kind of trade minister jobs rather like Liam Fox is now in this new UK Department for International Trade, he loves TTIP and TiSA. TiSA is the new replacement for TTIP which is coming along. TTIP is US and EU and it’s dead but TiSA is global. All countries involved except very wisely Russia and China are opting out.

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