European trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström and her Canadian
counterpart have confirmed that the EU-Canada CETA agreement will
include far-reaching investor privileges. The investor-state dispute
settlement (ISDS) clause in the deal is set to be based on EU proposals
for an Investment Court System that were announced last autumn following
unprecedented public outcry. However, this is no new departure. Indeed,
it is the same special rights for foreign investors come back from the
dead: https://euobserver.com/opinion/132504
Despite
all the talk of reform from commissioner Malmstroem, the threat to
democratic decision-making is as alive and dangerous as ever. (Photo: European Commission)
