27-Nov-2020
Open Democracy
In whose interests is the UK government negotiating post-Brexit trade deals? They would rather you didn’t know.
15-Sep-2020
Huffington Post
Campaigners had challenged the Department for International Trade (DIT) over its "hostile approach to freedom of information law".
2-Apr-2020
Verfassungsblog
Investors are receiving monetary damages that they would not be entitled to outside of ISDS, on the basis of an unjustified and highly reductive understanding of value.
3-Mar-2020
Big Issue North
As it leaves the EU, Britain is taking a far more secretive approach to the many trade talks it is holding. Neither the public – nor even our MPs – are allowed to know what’s happening in those negotiations.
2-Jan-2020
Big Issue North
Commercial ISDS adjudications trump democratically established laws and controls.
17-Apr-2019
Social Europe
The European Union’s disproportionate pressure for trade liberalisation risks exacerbating political strains in the last democracy of northern Africa.
10-Apr-2019
South China Morning Post
Maldives former president Mohamed Nasheed, whose party won a landslide in the archipelago’s parliamentary election, on Tuesday pledged to conduct a thorough probe into deals with China.
23-Feb-2019
Open Democracy
Documents show the “unfettered” access to ministers and senior politicians enjoyed by secretive think tanks that are “marching the country” to a no-deal Brexit and radical free-trade deals.
13-Feb-2019
Huffington Post
Although they will affect huge areas of society, many of these ’rollover’ deals would pass through parliament without any debate or vote.