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viernes, 18 de marzo de 2016

A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing Documentary: TTIP: Might is Right

ISDS will make it possible for companies to sue governments that damage
their investments. But is this arbitrage system where a few investment
lawyers decide over billions of taxpayers money a protection of our
business interests, or a threat to our democracy?
(El acuerdo de libre comercio propuesto entre los EE.UU. y Europa (TTIP)
causa preocupación por el derecho europeo a la libre determinación.
La parte más controvertida de TTIP es ISDS: solución de controversias inversionista-Estado. ISDS harán posible que las empresas demanden a los gobiernos que dañan sus inversiones. Pero es este sistema de arbitraje, donde unos abogados de inversión
deciden sobre miles de millones de dinero de los contribuyentes una
protección de nuestros intereses comerciales, o una amenaza para nuestra
democracia? )

On Saturday,
and more than 2.5 million signatures were offered to the European
agreement TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) between
critics fear that the scales will tilt toward North-American standards
And that when it comes to important collective achievements and
protection of its citizens, Europe will give up its right to

The part of the trade agreement that’s
company feels unfairly treated. This will enable multinationals to
circumvent democratic decisions and existing national jurisdiction. In
order to understand the potential consequences of this, VPRO Backlight
companies now summon the Canadian government to appear before an
arbitration tribunal if they feel that Canadian rules aren't in
compliance with the free trade agreement Nafta. Despite democratic
decisions against fracking under Canada's most important river, the
Saint Lawrence, the Canadian government was sued for millions of dollars
by the oil and shale gas company Lone Pine.

Could this happen in
future fracking in the Netherlands. VPRO Backlight probed the opinions
Dutch foreign investments.

British Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang
comes to international investment arbitration? Isn't in the end, might

With: Steve Verheul (Canadian negotiator for the trade
currently ISDS investment consultant) and Ha-Joon

Keiser Report en español: Cómo convertir negocios ilícitos en legales

RBS, rescatado con dinero de los contribuyentes, después de llevar a
cabo una serie de actividades conocidas como ‘fraudes’, pero que el
ministro de economía consideró ‘mala conducta’, una ‘mala conducta’ que
provocó la quiebra de la entidad. En la segunda parte, Max entrevista al
magnate taiwanés, Nobu Su, con el que conversará acerca de la demanda
que ha presentado en Singapur contra el RBS por los miles de millones de
pérdidas en permutas.