Flowering of candidates for a year of presidential // Obama’s visit to Europe and the negotiations of the TTIP – France Culture

Nearly thirty candidates have already declared for the French presidential election on April 23, 2017 // Barack Obama defended the proposed transatlantic treaty during his visit to London, Berlin and Warsaw.

Barack Obama and Angela Merkel • Credits: Nigel Treblin – Reuters

cANDIDATES BLOOM tO oNE YEAR oF pRESIDENTIAL

the first round of the presidential election be held on 23 April 2017 and about thirty candidates have declared. For Republicans, began the ranks Francois Fillon, Alain Juppe, Bruno Le Maire, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Jean-Francois Cope, Nadine Morano, and subject to confirmation next, Michele Alliot-Marie. Nicolas Sarkozy said he will not announce his intentions before next summer – the deadline being fixed to 9 September. The right-wing candidate will be chosen in primaries held on November 27, if the center parties obtain prior agreement. For the other parties of the right, Rama Yade, excluded from the Radical Party in September, joined the squad in which Nicolas Dupont-Aignan took place a long time.

On the left, the Socialist Party accepted the principle of a primary left all to be held in late 2016, but the supposed candidate Francois Hollande might make his organization problematic, especially as the chairman of the left Party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, refuses to participate in such a primary and that he submitted his candidacy since February without consulting the Communist Party.

Emmanuel Macron, launched a political movement called “Power Up! “But without declaring, as several polls show him as the favorite presidential candidate of the center-right voters and the left. The same polls leave little hope for conservationists, although Nicolas Hulot are respectable figure, and Front national side they announce that Marine Le Pen accesses the second round regardless of his opponents in the first and she would win even when face to face with François Hollande.

VISIT OBAMA iN EUROPE aND NEGOTIATIONS TTIP

last Sunday, the US, European and German leaders met in Hanover started while the next day in New York, the thirteenth round of negotiations on the draft transatlantic trade and investment partnership between Europe and the United States.

Referred to by acronyms TTIP or TAFTA, the proposed free trade area was launched in early 2013 by Barack Obama and the leaders of the European Union at the time. The European Commission summarizes the three major parts:

• The reduction of customs duties on goods and facilitating access services companies to foreign markets.

• the increased regulatory cooperation through the unification of standards between European and US markets.

• the establishment of common rules in areas as sensitive, among other things, intellectual property, the origin of the food or conflict resolution mechanisms.

for three years, discussions have been hampered by the many disagreements between Europe and the US and the growing opposition to the European public in a project on which the main candidates for the US presidency, Hilary Clinton Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders expressed reservations. In mid-April, Francois Hollande said that France could oppose the project if the conditions of transparency and reciprocity were not renegotiated. This refusal would be decisive because to be approved definitively, the free trade agreement must be approved by the 28 EU member states and the European Parliament. Moreover, Greece says it will not sign it under any condition.

Meanwhile, a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) was signed in February by twelve countries including the United States and Canadian, Central American countries such as Peru and Mexico, and Asia, including Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. By removing barriers to trade, services and investment, the Treaty has members representing almost 40% of the world economy.

On a visit to Europe, Obama defended the TTIP and hope signature by the end of the year. While in London, he decided against leaving the UK to the EU stating that if Brexit, the country would then be at “the back of the queue” in relations with the United States. The US president also defended the need for a “strong, prosperous, democratic and united.”

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