About the Project The Network for Justice in Global Investment is a joint effort by citizens and organizations in a variety of countries to challenge one of the most anti-democratic aspects of the global economic order – the rules governing international investment. Read More.
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September 23, 2010
Source: Investment Treaty News
Marc Maes The Lisbon Treaty has shifted the competence related to Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) from the European Union Member States to the Union and has added it to the Union’s exclusive common commercial policy. This transfer of competence not only requires the development of a common EU investment policy, but also legislative steps to clarify the
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September 15, 2010
Source: bilaterals.org
By Mercedes Alvaro, Dow Jones Newswires
QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador’s National Assembly has approved a government request to end bilateral investment promotion and protection agreements with Germany, the U.K. and Northern Ireland.
National Assembly member Linda Machuca told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday that the assembly made the decision Tuesday, following a request by President Rafael Correa.
Machuca said the
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Ottawa, provinces need protocol on sharing tab in legal actions against Canada: study
By Andi Balla | Publication Date: July 26, 2010
Investment claims have overtaken trade disputes as the leading trend of cross-border legal action related to the North American Free Trade Agreement, says a study released last week by the C.D. Howe Institute
“The decline in trade disputes may be due, in
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September 2, 2010
Source: TWN
Geneva, 2 Sep (Sanya Smith) — On the eve of UNCTAD’s 2nd World Investment Forum, a group of academic experts on investment law raise serious concerns about ‘the harm done to the public welfare by the international investment regime’.
In an unusual display of concern, 37 academics from developed and developing countries, including eminent writers in the field of
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Source: citizenstrade.org
Contact: Arthur Stamoulis, Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, (503) 736-9777
The Korea Free Trade Agreement Poses Serious Threat to State Sovereignty
Salem, Ore. — A bipartisan group of Oregon State Legislators sent U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) a letter today urging him to use his position as chair of the Senate Subcommittee on International Trade to strip provisions from
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The ICSID Caseload – Statistics 
We provide this documentation from the ICSID web page for a critical analysis. It includes the list of cases that this tribunal has filed and managed historically and until 2009.
Pending & Concluded Cases
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