[E-rundbrief] Info 1473 - Stop TTIP: 3,263,920 signatures

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1473 - stop-ttip.org: Success for “Stop TTIP”: 
3,263,920 signatures! Symbolic handover in Brussels / Alliance calls 
for political implementation.

Bad Ischl, 7.10.2015

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https://stop-ttip.org/success-for-stop-ttip-3263920-million-signatures/?noredirect=en_GB

Success for “Stop TTIP”: 3,263,920 signatures!
Symbolic handover in Brussels / Alliance calls for political 
implementation

Brussels, 7 October 2015 – Earlier today the self-organised European 
Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Stop TTIP symbolically handed over 3.2 
million signatures to the European Commission at their Brussels 
headquarters. Stop TTIP activists from all over Europe placed many 
kilos of papers full of Stop TTIP ECI signatures onto a giant scale – 
until such time as the citizens’ voices outweighed the corporate 
interests represented through sand bags placed on the opposite side. 
“Let’s TTIP the scales” was the motto of the action.

“Stop TTIP collected more signatures than any other European Citizens’ 
Initiative so far – we demand that the European Commission pays heed 
to the protest against CETA and TTIP. We want the TTIP negotiations to 
be stopped and the ratification of CETA to be rejected,” says Michael 
Efler, a member of the Stop TTIP citizens’ committee.

“Within one year,three times as many people as those needed for an ECI 
to be successful, according to EU rules, signed the ‘Stop TTIP’ 
petition.. We went beyond the necessary seven countries quorum to 
surpass the signature threshold in 23 Member States. More than 500 
organisations from across the EU are part of the Stop TTIP ECI,” adds 
Susan George from the Stop TTIP citizens’ committee. “This incredible 
result shows how strong opposition to TTIP and CETA has grown 
throughout Europe. If the EU institutions still care at all about 
democracy, they must organise a hearing in Parliament and the 
Commission must take action to stop both treaties.”

The self-organised Stop TTIP ECI calls on the institutions of the 
European Union and its member states to stop negotiations with the 
United States on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership 
(TTIP), and to reject ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and 
Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. The ECI started as a 
self-organised initiative exactly one year ago (October 7, 2014), 
after the European Commission declared an official ECI as 
inadmissible. Stop TTIP is currently challenging this decision in the 
European Court of Justice.

Contact: Press Team Stop TTIP

Action photos will be available from about 12 o’clock at: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eci_ttip/
An action video will be available from 8 Oct at: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/ecittip


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