Articles in English
The Online Citizen | 12-Mar-2021
Besides protection and dispute settlement, the BIT also includes several key changes in terms of application and restriction.
Future Beyond Shell | 11-Mar-2021
To realise a future beyond fossil fuels, it is imperative to look at how to disentangle the legal shackles that enable companies to frustrate climate policy and shift the burden of their stranded assets onto the shoulders of taxpayers through arbitration claims.
Broadband TV News | 11-Mar-2021
Netherlands-based United Group claims that Serbia has violated several obligations related to incentives and mutual protection of investments between the two countries.
Times Now News | 9-Mar-2021
India will be filing an appeal at The Hague this week against the $1.4-billion arbitration award against British oil firm Cairn Energy.
Business Standard | 8-Mar-2021
Cairn said its shareholders expect the use of the company’s ’strong powers of enforcement’ to recover 1.4 billion.
The West Australian | 8-Mar-2021
The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Dispute has advised Indiana Resources that the “Arbitral Panel” has now been formed with the first procedural hearing scheduled for the 22nd of April 2021.
Reuters | 6-Mar-2021
Vattenfall will get 1.606 billion euros and agreed to end pursuing a separate damages claim in the World Bank’s ICSID arbitration tribunal.
CAN Europe | 5-Mar-2021
In his opinion on March 3, the Advocate General shed some light on this question by arguing that ISDS in intra-EU disputes is indeed not allowed under EU law.
Jacobin | 5-Mar-2021
Free-trade agreements enable companies to sue governments if they interfere with profit-making activities, no matter how destructive. These trade deals put us in an antidemocratic straitjacket — it’s time we got rid of them.
UNCTAD | 3-Mar-2021
Most international investment agreements do not exclude taxation from their scope, which means that a wide range of tax-related measures are covered by them.
