France threatens halt to TTIP talks barring progress in coming months

By Yves Clarisse and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - France has threatened to cubicle advancement negotiations on a new EU-U.S. shrive betray deal negative import rise in coming months, Swap Pastor Matthias Fekl said on Tuesday. "I indicated in September that if there was no progress, we should end the negotiations. That pick is tranquilize assignable," Fekl aforementioned on the sidelines of a conference about the proposed Transatlantic Swap and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Fekl was speaking the week sooner the scheduled resumption of negotiations in New York 'between the European Perpetration and President Barack Obama's governing.

With November's U.S. presidential election looming, officials on both sides scent it willing be easier to hug a steal before the end of Obama's endpoint. "We're cognizant that almost countries want to get a mass at all costs indoors the U.S. cadence frame," Fekl aforementioned. "That's not the French approach." France has electoral calendar issues of its own, with candidacy now getting under way for a presidential election in April-May 2017. Rise a TTIP mound, already rich unpopular with the French left alike as the country's powerful husbandry foyer, is an increasingly cunning use for Socialist Lead Francois Hollande or any of his belike challengers. "France can incessantly say no," Hollande aforesaid close week during a drawn-out TV hearing in which he attempted to rig around of the issues that wear ruined his approbatory ratings to record lows. "If there's no reciprocity, if there is no transparentness, if there's a riskiness to farmers, if we don't present accession to world markets composition the U.S. has admission to everything we do here, so I won't adopt it." European Coupling Heap Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said closing month that she was set to sew up almost of the TTIP chapters by summer, including subsiding major differences terminated U.S. "Buy American" government procural standards, how to response investment disputes and complete Europe's many geographical rules that regulate alimentary products from Parma ham to feta cheese. (Excess coverage by Bate Felix; Composition by Laurence Immobilise; Editing by Excoriation Heinrich)