Final round of TTIP talks cd be decisive

(ANSA) - Rome, August 29 - Talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are going ahead and "the final round is often decisive," German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday after Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the TTIP talks were de facto sunk.
    Steiffert added that "there is no disagreement" with Gabriel on the fact that Brussels and Washington were at odds "on several major questions".
    The German industrialists' association said it was "astonished" at Gabriel's statements.