The re:publica TEN kicked off on Monday morning with a bombshell at one of its first panels: "TTIPleaks by Greenpeace" dealt with the 248 pages of original TTIP documents that had been leaked to Greenpeace Netherlands. As the originals are labelled as such, the published pages can conclusively be indentified as transcripts stated Stefan Krug, Head of the Political Representation of Greenpeace. The documents contain 13 "consolidated chapters", which do not feature any agreements, but consist of the positions of the EU and the USA and their respective demands within the framework of the agreement. "The scale of the discord was surprising to me", stated Stefan Krug from the podium on Stage 3.

The NGO has set up a "public reading space" at the Brandenburger Tor since 11 am today. Passages from the 248 pages are projected onto the facade of the monument. According to spokesman Volker Gassner, Greenpeace wants to "start a real debate on the topic". The organisation elaborated on the most important questions concerning the documents in the form of an interview at the re:publica this morning. Greenpeace had already projected selected passages onto the dome of the Reichstag on Sunday evening. To ensure that they were really dealing with original documents, Greenpeace called on a research network made up of the NDR, WDR German television networks and the Süddeutscher Zeitung newspaper.

According to Greenpeace trade expert Jürgen Knirsch, the documents can be dated to April 2016, before the 13th round of negotiations which took place in New York at the end of April.
Greenpeace stated that it did not oppose trade agreements as such. Trade expert Knirsch had to take a clear stance in the case of TTIP, however, as it had the goal of dissolving European safeguards set up in accordance with the "Precautionary Principle" in the Treaty of Lisbon.

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