London could become the European capital of state-owned asset seizure
Madrid’s appeal looks like it will determine just how vulnerable other EU countries are to their valuable assets being targeted in the U.K.
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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…
Press release – MEPs consent to the EU withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty
Parliament’s approval is needed for the EU to exit from the Energy Charter Treaty.Committee on International TradeCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy Source : © European Union, 2024 – EP
European Parliament committees vote to withdraw EU from the Energy Charter Treaty
The ECT was created in 1994 as a way to foster cooperation between countries on energy matters as well as generate and protect investment in energy ventures in post-Soviet countries.
Commission presents parliament with energy charter treaty exit plan
The EU’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.
UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies
Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says ‘penalises’ shift to net zeroThe UK is pulling out of a treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over their climate policies.The UK will quit the con…
UK to quit energy treaty that ‘penalizes’ net zero
Critics say the Energy Charter Treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments over green policies.
EU, Germany and Denmark sued by oil firm over windfall tax
Exclusive: Officials fear secret courts will block climate action and divert billions into coffers of fossil fuel investorsA Jersey-based oil-refining company is suing the EU, Germany and Denmark for at least €95m over a windfall tax introduced during …
5 times Rishi Sunak caved on Britain’s Energy Bill
Tory rebels of all stripes are taking matters into their own hands as the government’s flagship energy law returns to the House of Commons.
UK could quit ‘climate-wrecking’ Energy Charter Treaty, minister announces
Graham Stuart says if reforms to energy charter treaty not passed by November, UK would consider exit. EURACTIV’s media partner, The Guardian, reports.
Tory green wars are about to heat up
The energy bill is due to return to the U.K. parliament — and that means trouble for Rishi Sunak.
Portugal announces withdrawal from Energy Charter Treaty
Portugal’s Environment Minister Duarte Cordeiro annouced this week that the country has started withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty, in line with a proposal tabled by the European Commission two weeks ago.
EU moves to quit energy investment treaty
Brussels is also withdrawing a proposal to modernize the decades-old treaty.
EU tables Energy Charter Treaty exit, citing climate concerns
The European Commission proposed on Friday (7 July) that EU countries jointly quit an international treaty that has been criticised for blocking efforts to fight climate change because its protection of energy investments extends to fossil fuels.
Brussels tables EU-wide exit from the Energy Charter Treaty, considered at odds with the Green Deal
The European Commission has formally proposed a “coordinated and orderly” withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty.
[Analysis] Why EU is finally ready to quit the Energy Charter Treaty
As the EU Commission announces its proposal to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, EUobserver dives deeper into the core questions surrounding what critics dub the ‘ecocide treaty’ — and the reasons behind the withdrawal.