Online Protest Delays EU Plan To Resolve US Trade Row

(Reuters) - European campaigners against an EU-U.S. accord have held up progress towards the world's biggest free trade deal by deluging an online public consultation that EU officials had hoped would help them unblock a key issue. Of almost 150,000 submissions to the public forum on how to protect businesses from unfair government interference, over 95 percent were from supporters of a small group of organizations hostile to a deal with Washington and who submitted identical or very similar res...