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EU-China trade deal is a Trojan Horse sellout
30-Mar-2021 Australian Financial Review
The short-sighted German-driven agreement betrays the European project and poses a major economic and political problem for the rest of the West.
Germany to pay nuclear operators 2.6 billion euros for plant closures
6-Mar-2021 Reuters
Vattenfall will get 1.606 billion euros and agreed to end pursuing a separate damages claim in the World Bank’s ICSID arbitration tribunal.
German energy giant RWE uses the Energy Charter Treaty to attack Dutch climate action
4-Feb-2021 CAN Europe
RWE has filed an arbitration claim against the Netherlands, seeking compensation for the Dutch decision to phase-out electricity production from coal by 2030.
Cross-border data exchange: Regulatory options in international collaboration
15-Jan-2021 Federation of German Industries
German industry group BDI wants the EU to ban localization requirements and other limits to the free flow of data across borders.
Costs rise in Vattenfall lawsuit over German government’s nuclear phase-out
5-Oct-2020 Clean Energy Wire
The German government writes that around 21.7 million euros have been spent on lawyers, expert witnesses and court fees.
Merkel announced EU plans to speed up dialogue with China on investment agreement
2-Oct-2020 Pledge Times
The European Union wants to speed up negotiations with China on an investment protection agreement, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Indo-Pacific guidelines: Germany’s new China plan
3-Sep-2020 Pledge Times
Berlin wants to diversify its relations, position itself more broadly, conclude further free trade agreements – also in order to no longer be so dependent on Beijing.
Despite Merkel’s “serious doubts,” German industry defends the Mercosur-EU agreement
25-Aug-2020 MercoPress
The Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce defended the agreement as it “could provide the urgently needed boost to the economy, during the current crisis.”
Merkel raises ‘doubts’ over EU-Mercosur trade pact
24-Aug-2020 The News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed "significant doubts" over the EU-Mercosur free trade deal on concerns over the devastating deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
German firms call for PH, EU trade agreement
2-Jun-2020 The Manila Times
German companies on Monday called for the resumption of the negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and the European Union (Euphfta).
Vattenfall procedure has cost almost 20 million euros
22-Jan-2020 WirtschaftsWoche
The energy company Vattenfall is demanding compensation from the Federal Republic of Germany. The costs for the arbitration proceedings could exceed 20 million euros this year.
German farmers plan for Berlin tractor protest next week
20-Nov-2019 AgriLand
Farmers’ group outlined its concerns including the Mercosur trade deal, which it says “threatens the supply of safe, high-quality and certified food from the region with low-priced imports."
German farmers take to roads in extensive tractor protests
23-Oct-2019 AgriLand
Concerns include the Mercosur trade deal, which is said to “threaten the supply of safe, high-quality and certified food from the region with low-priced imports".
Netherlands faces ISDS threat after decision to ban coal-based power generation by 2030
16-Sep-2019 AFTINET
German company Uniper has threatened to bring an ISDS case against the Dutch government after a decision to ban coal-based power generation by 2030.
German company requests arbitration with Morocco at World Bank agency
7-Jan-2019 Morocco World News
A metallurgical industry project is the center of the dispute.
US arbitration court can rule on Vattenfall’s German nuclear claim
5-Sep-2018 Reuters
A US arbitration court has rejected a German government petition that said the panel had no right to rule on a damages claim by Sweden’s Vattenfall. Berlin cited a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
EU-Africa free trade will create more imbalances, say critics
9-Aug-2018 Deutsch Welle
Germany’s development minister has sparked a debate by calling for EU tariffs to be waived on African goods. Critics question whether import duties are really the issue, or are there other barriers to trade?
One hundred years of expropriation without compensation
4-Aug-2018 Expropriate
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...
Merkel hopes for trade deal amid Trump’s tariffs threat
24-Jul-2018 Axios
Angela Merkel badly wants a trade deal to prevent Trump from carrying out his threat to put 25% tariffs on car imports into the US.
Position paper on the trade agreement between the EU and Japan
7-Jun-2018 Bdew
The free trade agreement between Japan and the EU pushes for more liberalisation - including for the water industry.