{"id":661671,"date":"2013-06-17T14:09:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=fd0718833b6555e170550c4763c492b0"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:09:22","slug":"news-story-g8-summit-negotiations-for-historic-eu-us-trade-deal-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661671","title":{"rendered":"News story: G8 Summit: negotiations for historic EU-US trade deal announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Prime Minister, President Obama, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso set out their plans in a joint press conference in Lough Erne. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the press conference here:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RE9uAg-2crY\">Watch the press conference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister hailed a potential deal \u201cthat could add as much as \u00a3100 billion to the EU economy, \u00a380 billion to the US economy, and as much as \u00a385 billion to the rest of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And we should be clear about what these numbers could really mean.<\/p>\n<p>Two million extra jobs, more choice and lower prices in our shops. We\u2019re talking about what could be the biggest bilateral trade deal in history, a deal that will have a greater impact than all the other trade deals on the table put together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">When we last met at Camp David in the G8 and we first suggested we could reach this moment here in Lough Erne, many doubted it would be possible.  Everyone knows these trade deals are difficult. Some take years to get off the ground, and some never happen at all. So it\u2019s a testament to the leadership and the political will of everyone here that we\u2019ve reached this point. We must maintain that political will in the months ahead. This is a once-in-a-generation prize, and we are determined to seize it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/g8-summit-live\">Watch the G8 Summit as it happens.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister, President Obama, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso set out their plans in a joint press conference in Lough Erne. Watch the press conference here: Watch the press conference The Prime Minister hailed a potential deal \u201cthat could add as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}