Articles in English
Exit News | 7-Jan-2021
Italian businessmen Francesco Becchetti has stepped up his attempt to get the compensation awarded to him in international arbitration against Albania that he won, but that is under appeal.
Thomson Reuters | 5-Jan-2021
Sempra v Argentina: award annulled for manifest excess of powers in failure to apply BIT defence of necessity
Ch-aviation | 4-Jan-2021
Pakistan International Airlines could see its assets attached by the High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands, over a longstanding dispute between its shareholder, the Pakistan state, and gold and copper exploration giant Tethyan Copper Company
IIED | 21-Dec-2020
Do international investment treaties put a ’chill’ on environmental policy? To answer this question, we need to see the state as a complex web of actors, not a unitary whole.
Radio Free Liberty | 18-Dec-2020
Chinese investors have brought a $3.5 billion arbitration case against Ukraine for blocking the sale of a strategic aircraft engine maker whose fate Washington is closely following.
The Guardian | 18-Dec-2020
Australian taxpayers could be on the hook for compensation following a dispute between the Western Australian government and Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy, federal budget papers reveal.
The Irish Times | 17-Dec-2020
Important issues raised by CETA deserve more than a ludicrous 55-minute parliament debate.
Heinrich Böll Foundation | 16-Dec-2020
Given China’s unique position, the study concludes that the EU must ensure that particularly strong protections for EU regulatory policy space are included in any future investment deal.
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Inequality.org | 16-Dec-2020
In 2020, foreign investors filed at least 51 known cases demanding huge sums from governments struggling to fight a historic pandemic.
Euractiv | 16-Dec-2020
A two-day conference of the 54 parties to the Energy Charter Treaty will attempt to move forward in reforming the little-known charter, decried by environmentalists for protecting fossil fuel investments and blocking international efforts to curb global warming.
