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Negotiators have been battling to reach a deal before President
Barack Obama leaves office in January but points of contention
remain, ranging from food safety standards to support for small
business.
France has been particularly vocal about what it sees as a lack
of movement on the U.S. side. "Given the approach being taken by
the United States today, (a halt) is the most likely option,"
Fekl said on Europe 1 radio.
Fekl said in April that the talks should be scrapped in the
absence of further progress.
His intervention comes a day after Greenpeace called for the
talks to stop, citing concerns a deal would compromise food
safety. To support its case it published confidential documents
it said showed entrenched positions on the two sides.
The environmentalist pressure group argues that the proposed
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would hand
too much power to big business at the expense of consumers and
national governments.
(Reporting by Yann Le Guernigou and Andrew Callus; Editing by
James Regan and Dominic Evans)
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