Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - Update 5, 01/2016

Since the previous EUA Update EU and US negotiators have maintained their slow progress towards agreement. The successful conclusion of negotiations on TPP – the Trans-Pacific Partnership which the US has prioritised over TTIP – may assist them although there can be no guarantee that TPP will get through a hostile Congress. Moreover their work may be hampered by the Volkswagen scandal which saps the credibility of European regulators and by the agreement within the EU on the General Data Protection Regulation which is bound to anger US tech companies.