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France seeks to freeze EU trade talks until after April vote
New Zealand, Chile talks among those Paris seeks to pause. Trade pacts have been weaponized in previous French elections.
EU postpones long-planned trade talks with Australia over submarine row
A long-planned round of Australia-EU free trade talks have been postponed, a European official confirmed, after fury over Canberra's decision to cancel a major French submarine contract.
Macron says France 'will continue' to oppose EU-Mercosur trade deal
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Paris maintains its opposition to the trade agreement agreed between the European Union and Mercosur.
French airport investors make good on earlier threat to bring treaty-based claims against Chile in relation to reduced air traffic during the COVID pandemic
Two French airport companies, Aeroports de Paris (ADP) and Vinci Airports, have initiated treaty-based arbitration proceedings against Chile, invoking the Chile-France bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
Vicat takes dispute with Egyptian state to international arbitration
France-based Vicat raised a case against the Egyptian government with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in late June 2021. It concerns its cement production business.
Washington arbitration to open proceedings in Veolia vs Lithuania dispute next week
The International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington will start hearing a lawsuit filed by French energy group Veolia against the Lithuanian state.
Why Gadhafi's private jet is gathering dust on a French airfield
An aribtral tribunal ordered Libya to pay the Al Kharafi Group $930 million in damages. The Al Kharafi Group sued the Libyan state in France too, so when Gadhafi's A340 landed in France, they sought to have it impounded.
France puts EU withdrawal from Energy Charter Treaty on the table
The European Union and its member states should draw the consequences of the current stalemate in multilateral talks aimed at reforming the Energy Charter Treaty and consider a coordinated withdrawal, Paris has said
Working document on the draft EU-Mercosur Association Agreement
The following avenues can be envisaged to address the concerns raised by the draft EU-Mercosur agreement.