Ten reasons why the EU’s proposal for a Multilateral Investment Court doesn’t fix a fundamentally flawed system The European Commission is planning to establish a so-called Multilateral Investment Court (MIC), a new international court where corporations can sue governments for laws and regulations that harm their profits. The court is supposed to replace the controversial …
Open Letter to Environment Ministers
Friends of the Earth Europe, together with an alliance of European-wide civil society organisations, has sent an open letter to Environment Ministers from all EU Member States urging them to support more ambitious measures ahead of final negotiations on amendments to EU waste legislation. We call for binding reduction targets for marine litter and food …
Richterbund Statement on Multilateral Investment Court System
English translation of the German Association of Judges opinion on the proposal for the Multilateral Investment Court system (MIC). This translation was provided by EuroMinds Linguistics and has not been verified by the Deutsche Richterbund. Only the German original is an authentic document of the Deutsche Richterbund and can be found here: http://www.drb.de/stellungnahmen/2017/multilateraler-gerichtshof-fuer-investitionsstreitigkeiten.html
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Can the climate afford Europe’s gas addiction?
Friends of the Earth Europe commissioned a team of climate change scientists to determine how much gas Europe can afford to use in its future energy mix. The scientific study ‘Natural Gas and Climate Change‘ by Professor Kevin Anderson and Doctor John Broderick of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research reveals the urgency with which …
The Agrifood Atlas
The Agribusiness Atlas is a unique collection of facts and infographics that show the dramatic impacts of the global food system being rapidly monopolised by ever-fewer, ever-larger corporations at every stage of the food chain. This alarming trend poses risks to consumer choice, jobs and working conditions and food production in the future, warn the …
Briefing: the legal case to block Bayer-Monsanto
This is a summary briefing of new research led by Ioannis Lianos, Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) at University College London (UCL), which concludes that even on a narrow reading of EU competition law, the merger between Monsanto and German ‘life …
