TTIP and CETA Free Trade Agreements and Their Impact – What Do Economists Say?

The July issue of the Economists Panel conducted by the Ifo Institute and the FAZ economics surveys professors at German universities on the planned free trade agreements TTIP and CETA. According to the survey results, the majority of participants supports both free trade agreements and expects them to have positive economic stimuli for all of the countries involved. At the same time the majority believes that the ongoing TTIP negotiations are unlikely to be concluded. According to the majority of economists surveyed, a failure to reach an agreement would negatively impact the German economy and Europe’s political influence in the world.