ISDS Case Map
Singapore
This decision weakens the Union’s capacity to safeguard privacy, data protection, and accountability over software systems, at a time when deregulation pressures are increasing across Europe.
Significant concerns about the potentially negative impacts on EU policy space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’ rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation remain unaddressed.
The S Alam arbitration should therefore be seen not simply as a legal challenge but as a policy signal.
In addition to new pacts with the UK and Canada, Taiwan is working on updating an agreement with Singapore and could renew another one with Indonesia.
Singapore is driving talks for a groundbreaking digital economy agreement between ASEAN and the European Union, a move that could reshape $300 billion in Southeast Asian digital trade.
The EU-Singapore digital trade agreement is not in compliant with EU rules and fundamental rights and should be assessed by the EU Court of Justice, left-wing MEPs argue.
Singapore, Chile and New Zealand have launched negotiations for a green trade pact which could include cooperation in areas like sustainable aviation fuel, carbon credits and renewable energy certificates.
Mohammed Saiful Alam, founder and chairman of the controversial business conglomerate S Alam Group, has filed an international arbitration claim alleging that Dhaka's asset recovery drive has cost his family's business "hundreds of millions" of dollar.
In August, a Singapore-based investor filed a case against the UK government after the High Court in London quashed a proposal for a new coal mine on climate grounds.
The Nigeria-Singapore BIT and the Côte d’Ivoire-Singapore BIT have both entered into force. They establish rules on how Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire should treat investments from Singapore, and vice versa. With these treaties, Singapore companies operating will enjoy enhanced protection of their investments
