The hidden cost of #EU trade deals:
▻http://www.foeeurope.org/hidden-cost-eu-trade-deals
#ISDS is not just amoral... it is also costly.
The hidden cost of #EU trade deals:
▻http://www.foeeurope.org/hidden-cost-eu-trade-deals
#ISDS is not just amoral... it is also costly.
The ‘investor-state dispute settlement’ mechanism has been coming under growing public scrutiny due to its inclusion in the ongoing negotiations of an EU-US trade deal and the recently concluded EU-Canada trade treaty.
What is rarely mentioned is how often this mechanism has been used against EU member states, and how much this mechanism has cost EU taxpayers.