Opponents of controversial energy investment treaty to go after old agreements

Having pushed the EU out of the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), pressure groups and MEPs are now aiming for the legacy of over 1,000 bilateral investment agreements signed over decades.

London could become the European capital of state-owned asset seizure

Madridโ€™s appeal looks like it will determine just how vulnerable other EU countries are to their valuable assets being targeted in the U.K.

MEPs vote to leave treaty used by investors to sue over climate policies

Coordinated withdrawal agreed after several member states and UK have quit energy charter treatyEuropean lawmakers have voted to escape a treaty that lets investors sue governments in private courts for pursuing policies that stop the planet from heati…

Commission presents parliament with energy charter treaty exit plan

The EUโ€™s executive body has moved to simultaneously withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty while allowing individual member states to vote on its modernisation, according to the plan proposed to European lawmakers on Thursday.