Mixed feelings in Washington over EP indecision on TTIP

To recall, European Parliament President Martin Schulz cancelled a scheduled 10 June vote on a draft resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), fearful it would be rejected. A pro-TTIP consensus among the two biggest groups, the European People's Party (EPP) and the Socialists and Democrats (S&D), broke down, with the latter demanding there be no investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism in TTIP, while the EPP said there should. Days later, the US House of Representatives failed to…