The Philippines has a web of investment treaties which severely constrain the government’s ability to regulate or close polluting mines, a legal straitjacket that will become even tighter if the EU–Philippines Free Trade Agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) proceed
Estamos asistiendo a una lucha de poder, otra vez. El TTIP es un peligro para la democracia, los intereses de las corporaciones avasallan los derechos de la ciudadanía.
Philippine trade negotiators meet their DG Trade counterparts for a first round of trade talks, five months after they were announced, but nobody expects a cakewalk.
Canada and the European Union released a revised Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in February 2016. The revisions focus on the controversial and deeply flawed process of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS).
Aunque el CETA crearía un mercado mucho más pequeño que el que se pretende crear a través del TTIP, se trata de un comercio agresivo y supone el incremento de privilegios y poderes para las grandes empresas e industrias.
A new leak reveals that 5 EU member states are proposing to introduce investor-to-state dispute settlement for all cross-border investments within the EU.
Un groupe de cinq pays européens, dont la France, propose l’instauration d’une juridiction d’exception européenne au service des entreprises souhaitant attaquer les décisions des Etats.
“Despite the losses and defeats, tobacco companies will keep coming back for more. They will fight on regardless in order to delay and disrupt the rollout of the World Health Organization’s best-practice tobacco control measures,”
In an award issued July 28, 2015 but only published February 2016, a tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ordered Zimbabwe to return farms it seized without compensation in 2005.