The European Commission gives notice in the afternoon on the future of the controversial so-called investment protections – ISDS – in ongoing free trade negotiations with the United States. After today’s Commission meeting in Strasbourg, the results of this autumn’s “public consultation” on ISDS presented at 15 o’clock, after which the Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström also holds a press conference.
Investment guards governs how disputes between companies and governments to be solved, but Not least from the left hold accused of giving international large cap far too many opportunities to protest against democratically taken political decisions. The intense debate led last fall to ISDS portions were frozen until further negotiations, in anticipation of the public consultation, in which the public had to comment.
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