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Service trade with China set to be new impetus for EU recovery: expert
Brussels and Beijing should speed up negotiation of a Sino-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty and strive to sign it within this year, a Chinese think-tank argues
New bilateral investment treaty model
Pakistan's Board of Investment is working on Pakistan’s own template of a bilateral investment treaty, which will replace previous treaties and serve as basis for new ones.
Lithuania, Qatar continue negotiations on Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement
On February 25th, Lithuania and Qatar entered the second stage of negotiations on Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement. The two-day negotiations take place in Vilnius, reports LETA/ELTA.
Update on Indonesia BITs review
Indonesia for Global Justice together with Indonesian civil society networks met with the Director of Bilateral Cooperation of Investment Coordinating Board, Fritz Horas Silalahi, in Jakarta to discuss the review of Indonesia Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITS).
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft services & investment offer (Feb 2015)
as leaked to the BBC on 2
European Left united to reform international arbitration tribunals
Rather than abandoning completely the TTIP/TAFTA negotiations (and their little cousin CETA, an agreement between Canada and the EU) which is what a good part of civil society are calling for, the European Left wants to thoroughly reform this arbitral mechanism to limits its abuses.
UNCTAD releases review of trends in investment agreements and investor-State dispute settlement
​In 2014, countries concluded one international investment agreement every other week. Investors continue to use investor-State dispute settlement, but the number of new cases does not reach the record high of previous years.
China issues a first draft of its new foreign investment law for public comment
The Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China recently (19 January 2015) published a first draft of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign Investments (the Draft Law), for public consultation.
Dar briefed on BIT regime
Pakistan Finance minister says the government will review its existing bilateral investment treaties and develop a template for future ones.
India in no hurry to begin bilateral investment talks with US
New Delhi wants to finalise model text on investment treaties first