Alors que la France tente de sauver le CETA en torpillant momentanément le TAFTA/TTIP, 17 organisations européennes rappellent les dangers de l’arbitrage d’investissement tel qu’il est proposé dans les deux traités.
A secretive global legal system gives corporations leverage over the countries where they operate. Everyone said the United States didn’t have anything to worry about, because American laws are fair to begin with. Everyone was wrong.
Highly controversial investor rules in the EU-Canada free trade agreement (CETA) led the EU Parliament to ask its legal service whether they were compatible with EU law, and the analysis has just been published.
An international arbitration tribunal has ordered Venezuela to pay a Vancouver-based mining company more than $1.2 billion for expropriating its gold mines.
Leaked meeting notes posted earlier this month by ’Politico Europe’ suggest that as recently as July 15, countries couldn’t agree on what parts of the agreement should apply when.
A major topic of discussion at the World Social Forum in Montreal was the problems with TTIP-style free trade agreements and how we can stop them, writes Nick Dearden
As thousands discuss free trade at the World Social Forum in Montreal, Canada’s experience with NAFTA may offer lessons for the Netherlands, writes Niels Jongerius