In this comment for Borderlex I analyze a development, which has not yet been noticed very much, namely, the fact that Trump has strange bedfellows from the left-wing anti-trade groups. Since US President Trump took office he has completely reversed the US trade policy from multilateralism to protectionism. He has pulled out the US from TPP…
On 26 January, I will participate in the discussion on “Trade and sustainability: CETA dissected” organized by the Asser Instituut in The Hague. The programme is available here: http://www.asser.nl/education-events/
In my outlook blogpost for EFILA, I argue that since the year 2016 was an “annus horribilis”, the year 2017 should be used by the European Commission, European Parliament and Council for pause and reflection, and ultimately, change of the chosen path. Accepting ‘mixity’ as the new reality is the first step in this direction.
Read my take on the consequences of the CETA drama for the future of the EU’s investment policy. In this blogpost for Kluwer Arbitration Blog I explain why the CETA drama is a signpost that we have entered the dark age of protectionism and nationalism as regards international trade and investment agreements.
In my most recent blogpost I discuss the lessons which the decision of the German Constitutional Court (GCC) in the Vattenfall case can provide for the arbitral tribunal in the ECT Vattenfall dispute. Since the legal issues are very similar in both cases, it does not come as a surprise that the main elements of the legal analysis and conclusions…
Nikos most recent publication is a contribution entitled: How the European Commission and the EU Member States are Reasserting Their Control over Their Investment Treaties and ISDS Rules which will appear in: A. Kulick (ed), States’ Reassertion of Control Over International Investment Agreements and International Investment Treaty Dispute Settlement (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 309-332….
As Secretary General of EFILA, Nikos also publishes on the EFILA blog. HIs most recent blogpost is: The Provisional Application of CETA is Coming Close (14 Oct 2016).
Nikos is a permanent contributor to the Kluwer Arbitration blog. This is most recent blogpost is: http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/2016/10/11/profiting-anti-isds-propaganda/
All his other blogposts are available here: https://efilablog.org/tag/nikos-lavranos/
All his other blogposts are available here: http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/author/nikos-lavranos/
