All European Citizens: Please Read and Sign ... - The European Commission is seeking views from Europeans on the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) proposals in the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnerhip or TTIP. ISDS would give corporations the power to sue our governments if they thought a law hurt their profits -- this could be on anything from environmental rules, anti-smoking laws or rules on corporate taxes. Investor-state dispute settlement is bad news. Its always better if you can put things in your own words, but here are a few of the problems with ISDS. 1. It bypasses national court systems, establishing special tribunals that only corporations can access. 2. It allows corporations to overturn democratically agreed rules and laws. 3. It makes democracy more remote from the people. 4. It could be a threat to our environment, public health laws, food standards rules, restrictions on hazardous chemicals and many other policy areas.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:01:32 +0000
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