 Currently there is a negotiation happening outside of the World Trade Organization framework of the Trading Services Agreement. This is a negotiation that is being done by the European Union with other 27 countries called the Friends of the Services countries, which include countries with such a democratic reputation like Pakistan or countries which have recently had a coup d'etat, like in Paraguay. And they're trying to get an agreement to put all sorts of services up for liberalisation. For the European Federation of Public Services this is extremely worrying, first because there is no secrecy, we don't have any real knowledge of the mandates and the offers that different stakeholders are doing, they're negotiating behind closed doors, literally, they're negotiating in Geneva outside of the normal framework of negotiation and it shows a bit the will by especially certain lovies in the services industry to actually get hold of what we understand by public services, such as education, health and so on. And we really oppose and it's not just as we oppose, such liberalisation, citizens in Europe have been demonstrating, they've been signing petitions, they signed more than 2 million citizens signed the European Citizens Initiative for the right to water that clearly demanded the stop liberalisation of water and sanitation and again we see in the mandate in the leaked documents that we saw in WikiLeaks that sanitation comes again in the trading agenda and we really are worried about that. Well there's clearly a will to actually negotiate between different states in this particular case the EU and the United States to open up what they see as markets. We do not believe that natural monopolies, again such as water, core sections of our economies and our societies like the health system, the education system should be up for sale, we do not believe that they should be economic criteria that manage the way that our hospitals or our clinics should be run and in that sense if we take the logic of well the common good, the profit for the community, what other logic is going to come in place is the logic of making profits and if private companies start running health and education systems we're going to see that they're going to basically invest in what is going to give more return so they're going to close universities, schools or hospitals will be perceived as less profitable. We do not believe and we do not want a society that has these criteria in the way that treats ill people or children so we are really fundamentally against the trading off in public services and it will be a great problem for public sector workers not just citizens and we've seen it in the last 20-25 years of experience, we have hundreds of reports that show the privatised industries in the long run are worse off for the people working in such in such workplaces.