The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) has said that public services in the EU are under threat from transatlantic trade agreements that could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water, health, and energy for the sake of corporate profits.

EPSU says that the warnings emerge in a new report - Public Services Under Attack,TTIP, CETA, and the secretive collusion between business lobbyists and trade negotiators - published last month by an international group of NGOs and trade unions.

The study shows how the EU’s CETA deal with Canada, and the TTIP under negotiation with the United States, could lock public utilities into irreversible commercialisation and remove governments`ability to regulate services.

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Download the full report HERE.