Category A — STUDENT //IPBL 17
2017
The concept of poster is answer to TIPP agreement. The content of the drafts of agreement, as well as the reports on negotiation rounds, are classified from the public, an arrangement that "The Independent" criticised as "secretive and undemocratic". As noted above, elected representatives may only view the texts in a secure "reading room" in Brussels, to avoid any further leaks of information about TTIP negotiations into the public domain. "The Independent" summarizes the negative impact of TTIP as "reducing the regulatory barriers to trade for big business, things like food safety law, environmental legislation, banking regulations and the sovereign powers of individual nations", or more critically as an "assault on European and US societies by transnational corporations".