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Canada’s Gabriel Resources to seek $4.4 bln in damages from Romania
30-Jun-2017 Reuters
Gabriel Resources Ltd will seek $4.4 billion in damages from Romania for losses related to its long-stalled Rosia Montana gold mine project in a claim that the Canadian miner plans to file with a World Bank Tribunal.
Romania - the end of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties
24-Mar-2017 Lexology
The law approving the termination of agreements on mutual promotion and protection of investments concluded by Romania with other Member States (Intra-EU BITs) was published in the Official Gazette.
Green light for Romania to terminate its intra-EU bilateral investment treaties
15-Mar-2017 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The Romanian Parliament sent to the Romanian President for promulgation the Law allowing for the termination of the Bilateral Investment Treaties between Romania and other Member States of the European Union.
Romania seeks World Heritage status for Transylvania village in gold mine row
7-Jan-2017 Reuters
Romania has asked the United Nations to make a Transylvanian village boasting 18th century houses and intact Roman mining shafts into a World Heritage site in move that could protect it from a gold mine project.
When you thought trade deals could not get any worse — enter Wall Street
19-Dec-2016 Sierra Club
What connects two proposed gold mines, one in the high-altitude wetlands of Colombia and one in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania?
Row over Romania’s land of Dracula and gold spills onto new international stage
10-Nov-2016 Reuters
A battle over plans to build a huge gold mine in Rosia Montana, a Romanian village boasting intact Roman mining shafts and 18th century houses, has moved to an international stage.
Borissov: In CETA deal, Canada lifts visa requirements for Bulgarians, Romanians from December 1 2017
21-Oct-2016 Sofia Globe
Bulgaria and Romania withdrew their objections to the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) after getting written assurances from Ottawa that Canada will remove visa requirements for Bulgarian and Romanian citizens from December 1 2017
Secret arbitration system affecting Romanian community
20-Oct-2016 VOA
Protests against the Rosia Montana mine project continued for more than 15 years and resulted in the largest demonstrations in Romania since the late 1980’s.
Bulgaria demands visa-waiver guarantee to back EU-Canada trade deal
19-Oct-2016 Reuters
The Bulgarian government will not back the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada until it receives irrevocable guarantees that all its citizens can travel to Canada without visas, it said on Wednesday. Romania is demanding the same.
Romania’s government agrees to a complete lack of transparency in the Rosia Montana arbitration case
7-Oct-2016 Save Roșia Montană
In disregard with official requests, Romania’s government and Gabriel Resources decided to play out their dispute behind closed doors.
Romania to terminate its intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties
3-Oct-2016 Lexology
The President of Romania agreed to submit to the Romanian Parliament draft legislation approving termination of 22 bilateral investment treaties that Romania concluded with other EU Member States.
Bulgaria and Romania inch closer to visa-free travel with Canada
22-Sep-2016 EurActiv
Canada and Bulgaria have come to an agreement on a roadmap towards visa liberalisation, while the Romanian government indicated that there is a good chance of the same being granted to them in the near future as well.
KazMunayGas companies issue notice of investment dispute to the Government of Romania
27-Jul-2016 PRNewswire
The arbitration dispute concerns the treatment applied by the Romanian authorities to the investments performed by KMG and KMGI in their Romanian subsidiaries.
Romania, Bulgaria, Canada seek to unlock CETA by solving visa dispute
15-Jul-2016 EurActiv
Meetings in various formats have been held between Canada, the European Commission, Bulgaria and Romania, in an effort to avoid a possible veto from Sofia and Bucharest on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
Canada prepares to lift Romanian visa rules to smooth way for EU trade deal
6-Jul-2016 CBC
The next move toward ratifying Canada’s trade deal with the European Union is set when Immigration Minister John McCallum is expected in Brussels to resolve Canada’s long-standing visa dispute with Romania and Bulgaria.
Romania will veto the EU-Canada trade deal
14-Apr-2016 EurActiv
Romania will not ratify the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada, as an angry reaction to the refusal by Ottawa to lift the visa requirement of its nationals.
CETA ratification hangs in doubt over visa-free travel dispute
11-Apr-2016 EurActiv
The ratification the EU-Canada trade agreement hangs in doubt due to the refusal of Canada to introduce reciprocity with EU countries on visa policy, by lifting the visa requirement for Bulgarians and Romanians.
State loses for good the trial against the Miculas, following ICSID decision
29-Feb-2016 Romania Journal
Brothers Viorel and Ioan Micula won the lawsuit against the Romanian state at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and were awarded USD 200 million in damages.
Canada’s Gabriel Resources files international arbitration suit against Romania
22-Jul-2015 Mining Weekly
Gabriel Resources has filed a request for arbitration before the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against Romania over the Roşia Montană gold/silver project,
Eastern Europe against TTIP Trojan Horse
11-Dec-2014 Arc2020
The proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is meeting increased resistance in Eastern Europe.