TTIP: the Impact
on the Greek Democracy, Economy and Society
Study Summary
T
he Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), belongs to the “new generation”
of trade agreements. Together with Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Trade
in Services Agreement (TiSA) and the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) is one of the most important
forthcoming steps for the wide-ranging transformation
of the bourgeois society and capitalism.
The study «TTIP: The Impact on the Greek Democracy, Economy, and Society" constitutes a substantial resistance to the EU’s secrecy; a contribution so
that the European societies will not have to accept the
results of transatlantic, supranational negotiations as a
fait accompli.
The analysis is based upon a theoretical model according to which TTIP is jointly shaped by two systemic
trends. First, the trend of the neoliberal transformation
of the bourgeois society, which is the necessary
response to the persistent, contemporary structural
capitalist crisis. Secondly, the tendency of a newly
formed bipolarism: on the one hand the pole of
western bourgeois tradition; on the other, the pole
formed by the two main operators of the postmodern
capitalist totalitarianism in the East and the Eurasian
territory, China and Russia.
Therefore the necessity for a closer collaboration of the
West is even more urgent. During the last decade, this
has been served mainly (among other initiatives) by
the forthcoming TTIP. Transatlantic Partnership is not
simply a neoliberal integration agreement; moreover it
constitutes the compulsory rallying of “western” trade
and capital resources in order to confront the emerging
Sino-Russian (and not only) concurrence.