[Opinion] Jan van Aken: Why does nobody believe the left anymore, Mr van Aken?

Zeit Online

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The Left is fighting for its existence. Here, leading candidate Jan van Aken explains what makes him optimistic and why he wants a legal right to naturalization.

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In 2016, Greenpeace published the secret TTIP documents. Now Left Party leader Jan van Aken has admitted to being responsible.

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The co-party leader and top candidate of the Left Party, Jan van Aken, has admitted to leaking the secret documents on the TTIP free trade agreement to Greenpeace in 2016. "I gave them to a former friend of Greenpeace and said: do what you want with them," said van Aken in the video format "Spitzengespräch" of the "Spiegel". The case has since expired. "The problem back then was: these were secret negotiations," said van Aken. "At some point, p…