Against the G7, against TTIP. Mass protests in Germany – TVN24
Photo: Sven Hoppe / PAP / EPA | Video: Reuters Demonstration against the G7 countries was not without meaningful symbols
More than 30,000 people took to the streets on Thursday, Munich to protest against commencing on the Sunday meeting of leaders of the seven leading industrial countries (G7) in Elmau in Bavaria. For now, there were no incidents. Demonstrators also gathered in the Elmau.
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demonstration under the slogan “Stop the TTIP – save the climate – fight poverty” organized by an alliance of political parties and NGOs, fearing the negative effects of free trade agreements the EU and the USA (ang. TTIP – Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).
TTIP Opponents point out that the agreement is disadvantageous to the European Union and carried out by the European Commission and the US administration behind closed doors negotiations defy democracy. According to them TTIP is not a trade agreement, but an agreement that will lead to limitation of civil rights, labor, the digital to the benefit of large corporations.
The leaders of the seven most developed countries – the US, Germany, France, the UK, Canada , Italy and Japan – will meet on 7 and 8 June in Elmau Castle in Bavaria. Germany lead the G7 this year.
By 2014, the G7 was the G8 – the group was also Russia. However, it was removed from it due to annexation of the Crimea and the role it plays in the war in Ukraine.
It is a pity that there is no Poles?
According to police, in a demonstration attended 34,000 people.
The participants carried banners of protest slogans “Yes we can – stop TTIP” and “Every child who dies of hunger, has been murdered.” They called also for blocking Elmau, where on Sunday will begin a two-day G7 meeting. Order in the capital Munich guarded by 3,000 police officers.
One of the organizers of the demonstration – the head of pacifist organizations uniting platform “Cooperation for Peace” Reiner Braun – said the goal of the protesters is the “delegitimation G7 – the self-styled structure and undemocratic”. responsible for “policy of war and militarization.”
Braun regretted that the protests against the G7 do not take part people from Central and Eastern Europe, including Polish.
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Fence separate themselves from the demonstrators
Opponents of the G7 summit also gathered around the place of meeting leaders – Elmau. The participants of the protest camp in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, away from the castle a few kilometers, has gathered about 300 people – said the agency dpa.
G7 summit organizers fear the unrest caused by protesters. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said that the authorities expect two to three thousand violent protesters. Three months ago to street clashes and destruction of property took place in Frankfurt on the occasion of the opening of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank.
Security Summit will be guarded by nearly 20,000 police officers. German authorities have introduced controls at national borders to prevent the arrival of hooligans from abroad. Venue – the former castle Elmau which is now the hotel – odgrodzono high fence. Before the start of the meeting, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama intends to meet with residents of a nearby village.
Author: fil // plw / Source PAP
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