The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) a trade agreement covering 50 countries and more than 68 percent of world trade in services is being drawn up between the EU and the US. The draft agreement was supposed to remain secret and you weren’t going to be told why it was being agreed or what its effect would be until five years after it was agreed. But now you know, thanks to Wikileaks. And TISA is arguably the worst “trade deal” proposed to date. It aims to set in stone the extreme deregulatory model of the 1990s by forbidding countries from improving financial regulation. Continue reading →