Tensions simmer over EFTA members’ accession right to TTIP

Swiss parliamentarian Thomas Aeschi said there was a “difference in sentiments” between the EU and US on whether to start thinking about creating some form of “docking mechanism” that lets third countries accede to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Speaking at a European Institute luncheon in Washington on 13 April, Aeschi said “we have a trade policy dialogue with the US” but none with the EU and that the US was more enthusiastic about making TTIP an open…