Profiting from Crisis
How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries Cecilia Olivet & Pia Eberhardt Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. While speculators making risky investments are protected,…
S2B refutes European Commission’s defense of controversial investor-to-state dispute settlement
The European Commission recently issued two papers to address growing concerns among civil society and the wider general public over inclusion of the increasingly controversial investor-state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS) in the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Protection agreement (TTIP).…
A transatlantic corporate bill of rights
Investor privileges in EU-US trade deal threaten public interest and democracy This briefing analyses leaked proposals for so-called investor-state dispute settlement under the proposed EU-US deal and reveals a determined lobby campaign from industry lobby groups and law firms to…
EU’s note is a lobby document and not objective or complete
Seattle to Brussesls analysis: The European Commission’s note on “Investment Provisions in the EU-Canada free trade agreement ’’ is a lobby document, not an objective and complete presentation on the issue At the end of 2013 the European Commission produced…