From our diverse backgrounds, we reaffirm our conviction that Mexico is an independent country that places life, dignity, and sovereignty above profit and the imposition of corporate interests.
SOMO and Both ENDS strongly condemn the newly revealed investor-state dispute settlement case filed by Petrogas, an Omani oil and gas company operating two shallow-water gas fields in the Dutch North Sea, against the Netherlands.
An early review of the texts reveals new handouts to Big Tech and other corporate interests, with little to nothing that will help working people in the US.
Significant concerns about the potentially negative impacts on EU policy space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’ rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation remain unaddressed.
An international arbitration body for investor–state dispute settlement has ruled in favor of South Korea in its challenge to the award for private equity fund Lone Star over its 2012 sale of a local bank.
Foreign countries want to take a cut of the proceeds from digital services provided by American companies, and passed their own laws to do so... and now the US is using trade negotiations to pressure those governments into rolling them back.
Belgium fears that using the assets would leave it exposed to Russian legal action. This is a major concern for Belgium, which has a bilateral investment treaty with Russia, first signed in 1989.
This Treaty will help promote and facilitate investment, by providing investors in New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates with clear rules, Trade and Investment Minister Todd McClay says.
The agreement for 2.2 million tonnes per annum aims to diversify India’s energy imports, even as US tariffs and Russian oil restrictions continue to complicate bilateral relations.