Reclaiming Public Interest
in Europe's International Investment Policy

EU Investment Agreements in the Lisbon Treaty Era: A Reader

Spanish title: Por una política europea de inversiones al servicio del interés público: Los Acuerdos de Inversiones de la UE en la era del Trata do de Lisboa

Ed. Seattle to Brussels Network, 2010

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This publication comes at a crucial time. The Lisbon Treaty has given the European Commission added clout; it can now negotiate trade and investment treaties by itself, on behalf of all 27 members States. Thanks to Lisbon, an already undemocratic Europe has become even less so and is using its broad mandate to inflict as yet untold damage on the rest of the world through a series of apparently technical trade and investment treaties to pry open the markets of poorer, more vulnerable countries. (...)

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