EU Trade Commissioner on TTIP: I do not take my mandate from the European people

I think there's a lot of money involved with this deal.. The previous "Commissioner" was also as corrupt as anything...

Tax fraud, trading with insider knowledge, ... It isn't mentioned in his English bio though ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_De_Gucht vs https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_De_Gucht

It's weird that we let these people decide about democracy and what's "good" for us.