Statement by ATTAC (Ireland) supporting European Parliament vote scheduled for Nov. 23rd to request legal clarity from European Court of Justice on controversial investor protection mechanism in the CETA Law professors, legal experts and … [Read more...]
ECJ must rule on the compatibility of ISDS with EU law.
Working Paper Delivered At Conference: ‘International and Comparative Law in the 21st Century: Lessons learned?’ 10th June 2016, Griffith College, South Circular Rd., Dublin 8, Ireland. “European Court of Justice Must Rule on Coherence of ISDS … [Read more...]
Perspectives on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and Argentina’s Debt
The following article is written by Tony Phillips an Irish and Argentine economist specialising in the build up to and the consequences of excessive national debt. He is Editor (with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine minister for … [Read more...]
Is This How European Democracy Will Die? An Obscure Technocratic Vote During Euro 2016!
by Barry Finnegan, Attac Ireland Full article in PDF This June the 28 EU foreign ministers will have a vote on whether or not to give the European Commission ‘provisional application’ power to sign an EU-Canada free investment and trade deal … [Read more...]
Barry Finnegan of Attac discusses the risks of TTIP and CETA, Newstalk 16/4/2016
Here's a 10 minute radio piece from Saturday 16th April, 2016 on the Businesses Today Show on Newstalk 106FM national radio in Ireland: Mark O Mahony from Chambers Ireland, and Barry Finnegan, researcher with ATTAC Ireland, and lecturer at the media … [Read more...]