The EU’s Hard Line on Privacy and the Environment May Be Coming to an End

The EU has long taken a harder line on privacy and environmental regulations than the US. But activists worry that may soon come to an end.

Last week, the EU and the US met to negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP for short. The proposed agreement isn’t done, but on Monday, Greenpeace Netherlands published a set of documents that the organization claims includes a partial draft of the TTIP agreement. According to the organization, the leak reveals the US’s plans to weaken at least some of the EU’s laws.