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EU Commission | 13-Jan-2015
Today, the European Commission published its analysis of the almost 150,000 replies to its online consultation on investment protection and investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
EurActiv | 13-Jan-2015
La commission du commerce international du Parlement européen s’oppose clairement au mécanisme de règlement des différends entre investisseurs et États, une clause intégrée au TTIP.
Le Monde | 27-Dec-2014
La timidité du gouvernement français a conduit à laisser l’Union européenne avaliser un choix qu’elle regrettera peut-être dans quelques années : l’inclusion d’un mécanisme d’arbitrage privé dans l’accord commercial CETA.
EurActiv | 16-Dec-2014
Gus Van Harten tells EurActiv that the EU should explore the option of an international arbitration court and use Australia, not Canada as a benchmark.
WEED | 12-Dec-2014
The film explains how the settlement works and why it endangers necessary governmental rescue measures in financial crises as occurred in Greece, Cypress and Argentina.
Public Citizen | 12-Dec-2014
The European Commission’s claim that threats posed by the investor-state dispute settlement system can be fixed by “improving” ISDS provisions in trade pacts has already been proved false, says Public Citizen
Le Parisien | 9-Dec-2014
La Commissaire européenne au Commerce a indiqué lundi à Washington que les résultats de la consultation publique européenne sur les tribunaux d’arbitrage dans le projet d’accord de libre-échange entre les Etats-Unis et l’Europe seraient connus peu après Noël.
EurActiv | 9-Dec-2014
Trade officials negotiating the ISDS arbitration clause within the EU-US trade agreement have half an eye on their next deals, since the wording is likely to shape other key trade treaties on the table.
FFII | 7-Dec-2014
Lock-in, no institutional safeguards for independence, perverse incentives, no separation of powers, automatic consent, ripe for exploitation, sovereign debt instruments included, open to the world, and a strategic mistake. Former trade commissioner De Gucht left us a Gordian Knot, writes Ante Wessels.
FOEE | 4-Dec-2014
New research today reveals that European governments have already paid at least €3.5 billion to private investors due to a clause in international trade deals.