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New Ecuadorian government teams up with powerful international lobbies to rejoin investment treaties prohibited by the constitution
Institute for New Economic Thinking | 15-Jul-2021
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians.
keywords: Ecuador , ICSID , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Imran okays new bilateral investment treaty template
Dawn | 13-Jul-2021
Pakistan Prime Minister has approved the new Bilateral Investment Treaty template whereby any dispute will now be remedied through local arbitration.
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , Pakistan
Ciadi: Argentina tiene 8 casos activos, con una deuda de u$s 805 millones
Cronista | 12-Jul-2021
El Estado enfrenta 8 casos ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones (CIADI) y paga costos por la crisis de 2001, las expropiaciones, el congelamiento de tarifas y la estatización de las jubilaciones. Los detalles.
keywords: Argentina , corporate interests , ICSID , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
RWE and Uniper: Can (German) courts assess the jurisdiction of ICSID arbitral tribunals?
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 12-Jul-2021
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs initiated “anti-arbitration” proceedings before the German courts to “avert” two ECT-based ICSID arbitrations brought against it by the German energy companies RWE and Uniper.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , ICSID , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Netherlands
Pourquoi il faut sortir du traité sur la charte de l’énergie, cet accord d’investissement qui fait dérailler la transition
L’Humanité | 9-Jul-2021
Alors qu’a lieu un nouveau round de négociation pour « moderniser » le Traité sur la charte de l’énergie, 400 organisations de la société civile lancent un ultimatum pour sortir au plus vite de cet accord.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
La justice belge gèle un demi-milliard d’euros du Kazakhstan
L’Echo | 8-Jul-2021
Un litige portant sur une raffinerie de pétrole et de gaz au Kazakhstan a amené à la justice belge à geler plus d’un demi-milliard d’euros de cette république sur un compte belge.
keywords: Belgium , ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Kazakhstan
Conflit entre l’Inde et une société écossaise: des propriétés situées à Paris «gelées»
Le Figaro | 8-Jul-2021
Cairn Energy a affirmé avoir obtenu le droit de «geler» des biens immobiliers appartenant à l’Inde et situés à Paris, dans sa dernière tentative de récupérer 1,7 milliard de dollars qu’elle estime lui être dus par New Delhi.
keywords: energy , finance | banking | taxes , India , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Britain’s Cairn gets French court order to seize 20 Indian properties in Paris
The Tribune | 8-Jul-2021
The centrally located properties mostly comprise flats, valued at more than EUR 20 million, used by the Indian government establishment in France.
keywords: energy , finance | banking | taxes , India , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Más de 400 organizaciones exigen a los gobiernos europeos que abandonen el Tratado de la Carta de la Energía
El Salto | 7-Jul-2021
Esta semana se celebra la sexta ronda de negociaciones para modernizar el Tratado de la Carta de Energía (TCE) que, según desvelan unas filtraciones de documentos oficiales de la Comisión Europea, no aspira a dar resultados reales para alinear el Tratado con los objetivos del Acuerdo de París.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Leaked diplomatic cables show ‘limited progress’ in Energy Charter Treaty reform talks
Euractiv | 7-Jul-2021
Little progress has been made to modernise a controversial agreement on energy investments that activists warn could derail decarbonisation efforts in Europe and across the globe, according to leaked documents.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , leaks