21.04.2016.
Source: www.euractiv.com
The warning came from the European Parliament, where the International Trade Committee was holding a hearing on Wednesday (20 April).
German MEP Bernd Lange, an SPD lawmaker from the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group who chairs the committee, said public procurement could turn into a TTIP deal-breaker as negotiators seem stuck in boasting the openness of their own public contracts market.
“There has been something of a ‘beauty contest’ over which country is the ’most’ open in terms of public procurement in recent years,” said one analyst at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a think tank.
“And the EU has appointed itself as the fairest in all the land,” he added.
Read more: http://www.euractiv.com/section/trade-society/news/public-procurement-could-be-next-ttip-deal-breaker/