Articles in English
Common Dreams | 30-May-2016
Emails obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show U.S. Trade Rep. Michael Froman discussing TPP with Goldman Sachs lobbyists
The Economic Times | 30-May-2016
India has written to 47 countries to nullify the existing bilateral investment agreements and ink fresh treaties that will make it mandatory for foreign investors to exhaust local judicial remedies before seeking arbitration.
IISD | 29-May-2016
Results from an IISD expert meeting held in Montreux, Switzerland, May 23–24, 2016.
New Generation Trade Blog | 27-May-2016
The new trade is something with much more weight: It’s about community power and who gets to make decisions.
The Hindu | 26-May-2016
The new bilateral investment treaty’s gratuitous focus on local courts and taxation may not please our partners.
ICTSD | 26-May-2016
The tribunal considered that the main and determinative reason for the 2011 restructuring was in order for the tobacco giant to bring a legal claim under the BIT Treaty, using a Hong Kong-based entity.
Client Earth | 25-May-2016
The proposal would fundamentally undermine the EU’s internal market provisions and the role of the courts of the Member States and the European Court of Justice in safeguarding their operation.
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EU ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
TNI | 24-May-2016
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
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actions | resistance ,
EU ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Philippines ,
RCEP
Politico | 23-May-2016
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.
CIGI | 23-May-2016
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).
