LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The partnership’s launch – which should occur at the beginning of 2015 – has been presented as a much-needed “deficit-free stimulus” that would boost US and EU GDP by 0.5% annually, while helping to increase employment on both sides of the Atlantic.
伦敦—跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系（TTIP）的思想提出20年后，美国和欧盟上周终于同意开始谈判了。这一关系的建立——应该会在2015年初开始——不啻急需的“没有赤字的刺激”，能刺激0.5个百分点的美国和欧盟GDP年增长率，也能提高大西洋两岸的就业水平。