EU-US trade talks could become 'another Acta'

EU-US free trade talks risk following the same path as Acta, the controversial anti-counterfeit treaty which collapsed in 2012.

The European Commission spent several years negotiating the Acta treaty, a multilateral agreement, on the EU's behalf, but MEPs threw it out in July 2012, following public protests in a number of European capitals.

Its critics did not like the the potential reach of criminal sanctions or the policing role of Internet service providers.

But they focu...