Getting Action Strategy Check: Confronting ‘corporate super-rights’ in the TTIP

The Democracy Center Staff

Campaigners Pia Eberhardt and Arthur Stamoulis discuss what has been learned so far about challenging investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), as the European Commission consults on its use in the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership By Thomas Mc Donagh and Aldo●●●

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Allowing corporations to sue governments for changing their laws may be common, but it’s not good

THOMAS MC DONAGH

Around the world, countries are rejecting exactly the kinds of dispute mechanisms that the EU/US trade deal is trying to foist on us. Image – Corporate Europe Observatory   The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a massive trade agreement,●●●

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ISRAELI WATER COMPANY MEKOROT UNDER PRESSURE FROM NGOS

Friends Of The Earth International

The environmental federation Friends of the Earth International announced its support today for a campaign exposing the discriminatory practices of Israeli state water company Mekorot in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. [1] A ‘Week of Action Against Mekorot’ co-organised by PENGON●●●

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