Lobby-occupied bureaucrats attempt to bypass the enormous popular opposition against ISDS
Saturday, February 20, 2016 11:06
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.
ISDS [investor-state dispute settlement system], is included in thousands of international agreements. It allows companies to sue governments if policy changes – even ones to protect public health or the environment – are deemed to affect their profits. These lawsuits bypass domestic courts and take place before an international tribunal of arbitrators, three private lawyers who decide whether private profits or public interests are more important. Across the world, investor-state tribunals have granted big business billions of dollars from taxpayers’ pockets – often in compensation for public interest measures.
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/02/lobby-occupied-bureaucrats-attempt-to.html
