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TTIP – zagrożenie czy szansa
TTIP: A Threat or an Opportunity?

Author(s): Marcin Święcicki
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Economic policy
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: TTIP; CETA

Summary/Abstract: Over the past 50 years the United States and European Union states have developed high but divergent consumers protection standards. A free trade agreement based on unifications of standards is unrealistic, so functional equivalents and/or mutual recognition of standards might be a recipe. The EU single market is based on mutual recognition of national standards whenever there is no common EU standard, and an ideological approach to the protection of consumers could undermine the extent of benefits from TTIP.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 135-150
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish