In europe people are taking to the streets to protest the lack of transparency in treaty negotiations such as the t. T. Ip treaty with the us and the seat a treaty with canada. The use of arbitration tribunals a central and totally opaque part of these treaties is a serious threat to the future of democracies. May. Be. Tiny little lonia block the signing of the Free Trade Agreement with canada thanks to paul men yet its minister president. 3. 5000000 loons blocked a treaty concerning 500000000 europeans a smiley european entity defines the great liberal euro its truly david against goliath who want to. Make a move us face that one jesus was god of us tried to figure 1st one big. Deal as good or bad fairhope all theres one is what we do believe will be a set of incentives for an argument. Its good restaurant i think they should give us big too quick i dont see. Dont want to sign it just. Says on those im going to join it is only. Just sit exam. That exam i was the 1st going to see it up chris said dont fix it its all there are. Very good in your hope in synagogues this will be done. To attract Foreign Investors youre a promise canada that it would integrate the International Arbitration system called. Into the treaty. The cornerstone of the system is the deterrent effect for states when a complaint is made. Womens state nationalized is a business it seizes property and the state then compensates for this expropriation. But if the state raises the minimum wage or passes an. All or prohibits disruptors it can affect a companys gains. This is an indirect expose creation since its a loss of earnings. Sufficient ground for suing a state before a private International Arbitration tribunals. For also this is the strongest on our demands for the. Product to look at the demand is on the move before. Our. Numbers to smoking are. A real scandal. This indirect expose creation written into the sea to and other treaties opens up a real pandoras box. Complaints against government measures that bother investors are likely to increase. I betray ssion tribunals a massive deterrent to the state. It is a commits also its use of it is that at sea they have to stand this zacks in their name again these mickey sort of again is the glue that is assume it drew to hide behind these as we dont seem to get is because i didnt seem to get you know the gong annual sort of routine us in that. Interview and more skivvies dispenses it got to conspiracy chief did you like us to take on that is to add that back in the top. This in disguise if i happen to have all this room dont see dumont new news i want to take him on this one on the hope soon like hes doing that gift. By example. This is enough if you know that is to simply deal with it politically she says were going to hold human was that they give us things everyone wont again you. 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College and establishments of the institution why the Foreign Investors have their most powerful rights at the International Level of any private charter in the world most people think about trade they think about goods and services being a strange between 2 countries and the investment component the investor chopped or a trade agreement is about something very different is about establishing a special system of International Protection for foreign assets. P. D. S. Youll see that is the season is the postman. The cool it could be no leak key over who lap even the thoughts on foot length if you know is he going to use it is the still missing see 90 hey genius do you see 20 you know he can see and if it you bought it thank you people the folks who would want. And will exist to commit that we will have all the most obsessed out of leverage on the level of people. On juice just a simple quote david gergen these undocumented. Level was going to security and i vowed to live when i was single and i think you can think that in 12 when i was saw something pretty neat and you move. The vision. I let it go and the real piece im what you could be the. Defense minister of new homes in economy tests on consumer they provide is all im going with the only for. Goodness weve been thinking on konqueror almost inevitable. In these arbitration. Multinationals impose their will most often in great secrecy. Secrecy is not only in. Informing citizens it is the keystone of the whole system allowing for the most shameful arrangements. And this is what happened in germany when the swedish multinational vattenfall a large Energy Producer indirectly attacked the city of hamburg in 2009. Plan to get the federal state that remained secret for years and was unveiled thanks to a professor of International Law marcus kai of. Tradition are secret because no one prevents the parties from the go see if anything and then in the public hearing they will say whatever they say but the real negotiations will take place outside. In 2007 vattenfall obtained a Building Permit for a coal fired power station in the suburbs of hamburg. Following the 2008 elections and to petition the elected green party review the permit. The discharge of hot water into the elbe to cool turbines threatens the aquatic fauna vattenfall would have to comply with and the pollution measures. And how did vattenfall react by immediately filing a complaint before an arbitration tribunals demanding 1400000000 euros in compensation under pressure germany secretly negotiated with wagner fall intil 2011 and suddenly one day the case was closed we only know at the end that they reached the said i listen this is very important the only publicly available information is that they said that. End of the story i am marcus k. F. C. Scrutinize the tribunals decision. It mentions a mysterious compromise between vattenfall and hamburg signed in a local court. And so thats what i said well if they reached a settlement in front of Domestic Court in front of them this is a piece of information that i can request and the federal government refused. But the city of hamburg sent it to. The city gave a new permit which is less restrictive than the op thats the. Button for did what any button 5 wanted a change in the prompt and thats what they got. As unbelievable as it may sound 100 screen party didnt impose the Environmental Standards that it considered just. I can just imagine the conversation that took place between the federal government of germany and the city of hamburg so the federal government said well look we signed this 50 we are bound by this internationally germany has International Obligations and you have to fulfill that we cant you cannot become a break International Law i mean this is also a powerful argument especially in democracies especially in countries like germany but all over the world. Even germany is caught in the trap of its treaties and gives in to blackmail. In total secrecy the state signed an agreement on march 11th 2011. That same day japan suffered the worst earthquake in its history. This fukushima disaster shook the planet and especially germany. Pressured by a 50 year old Anti Nuclear Movement and following protests in 450 cities across the country under the merkel was compounds who act. She moved to abandon Nuclear Power with maturity suppose. Anything ya plans and then. To me. In. The name. If you can in any. Event. I think you know. What im going to teach you must store in 9093 was sentenced to death. Charged with capital murder even though he didnt have the gun didnt pull the trigger didnt intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week with his son of a 23. But. You have. Confined within 4 gray walls. Its using. Him to leave this room. Believing in weird things by the way is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system its a feature the card is equipped in the software of our program to try to connect things in the environment just in case theres a real connection. To the chancellors decision became the 13th amendment of the law on Atomic Energy when it was voted in 4 months later. The 7 oldest german plans were immediately closed among them those. Which also belong to the swedish multinational vattenfall. Immediately vattenfall challenge the legitimacy of the nuclear law at the Constitutional Court of calls with the highest court of justice in germany. But as a foreign investor vattenfall can also a tad germany in a private arbitration court. It had already won once it could and would try again in may 2012 it filed a new complaint in arbitration. The child takes place in washington although it essentially concerns europe. Good morning ill bring you misty arbitration hearing in number a rb slash 12th rushed. In a mental retreat in long a. B. I ask lehmann and the federal republic of germany as respondents in the interest of transparency this hearing is being streamed so that the public. State supplement. He said to greet. The president in a scream. The arbitrator is. There. And Sabina Conrad defends those of germany compensation claims 4700000000 euros. As a consequence of the 13th amendment claimants lost their production licenses for the criminal plant and for the and plant there was simply withdrawn. The dispute does not concern germanys right as such to face up Nuclear Energy rather this dispute concerns the manner in which germany has chosen to implement its face so decision and its failure to probe to protect claimants investments in particular concerns germanys failure to pay any compensation at all. The heart and so most in those protection treaties is to provide protection against expropriation. The difficulty however when we talk about indirect expropriation is to draw the line between expropriation on the one and legitimate government who measures on the other. And there is no easy way to draw these lines and make this distinction. So of course one could say that the protection that in the esters enjoy under the treaty is influence how and walked the state regulates. Doesnt matter if a parliament has adopted in or in the most democratic way. It can still violate international purgation stop the state has undertaken in the international treaty. It is for each individual. State to decide for the law they want to sign such treaties or germany is trying to do just arbitration is true explore the fukushima disaster. To create a narrative that would excuse its wrongdoing. You can put perfume on it but the Border Guards here is that international to govern this dispute. Legally germany cannot challenge the ratified treaty. But the swedish giant failed to meet its obligations. It did not repair its damaged power plants a great danger for the population. Claimants now see compensation for their own business failure billions for plants which were not tarrie is all their problems but apparently in. Reality a burning transfer meter is totally normal as are busting pipes also normal and back and how soon of us are corroded barrels with radioactive waste. To follow have shown you a promotional video off the power plant in that video none of the events that are listed here on the site feature and plans but both of them have been standing still. Not because of focus shima not because of the moratorium not because of the 13th amendment but because of a multitude of incidents. Until. Defeated. Kind smigel a Nuclear Physicist from greenpeace called as an Expert Witness took a close look at all the plans failures. Searched. Well and here experience. As any saying was this d the in mark. Over these cables with the defeat of. In china. P. B. S. And threw out a ship so i fully clear. On this machine transform our thoughts and even. The machines on some of the how to see. Early to be in. Any big in this is an unknown. Its going to have to get. To hoot. Its a. Gun it came from you feel to link for me it is possible she only looked me in the. Discounting which was can all sleep save wouldnt it if this were an infant book all through it. Thus germany is in famine 2 or descriptions of fires quote unquote and pictures of corroded barrels quote unquote country but nothing to the ultimate determination as to whether in 2011 germany has admitted in this over trade that its decision to accelerate the face up was not based on concerns over safety of the Nuclear Power plants but mariner on an alleged change perception of the general risk that Nuclear Energy poses to the german population that is all politics. That involves lawyer is sheltering behind the law behind strict legal language is not to recognise the multinationals responsibility. What is very clear that this group of people or many of them have been educated in a particular way their own. Educated in this particular way of looking at International Law as sort of a technical matter and at the same time thinking that giving companies as many rights and privileges will benefit the Global Economy so lawyers are not trained in thinking about consequences of their cases more as a trained in thinking about a way of by the more. There is only a french for this and the french term is that. So this is what this really apply is you people think in the various im a lower this case is very controversial and has generated much public debate now why is that because its an arbitration which should never have been brought under the Energy Charter treaty and under the exit convention. The reason for it through the amendment. Was different. Actually and you are correct that is correct. If that is a public perception. How would that legally translate into. The 1st man protection. During the show i make a number of assumptions and i dont ask you to do anything but should not do this would be because it is almost impossible hypothetical because you are. Assuming that the public is wrong and the right or wrong the perception changes in the public how does that translate into legally introduce you to. And i was listening to the. Opening this morning. Claiming that the thirteens and meant and it was a political decision and theyve said it quite often i wonder when political has become such a dirty word that. It comes from the greek political us. Which means relating to the people to the citizens to the state. And democracy is nothing if not political it is government off the people by the people for the people. It has to be political thats its definition and its certainly not as he was. Refusing any political or democratic consideration multinationals consider themselves outside politics and above the law. Laws still exist. While vattenfall trial against germany is proceeding in washington the federal Constitutional Court in karlsruhe where the 1st complaint was launched gives its judgement. The Court Declares that abandoning Nuclear Power conforms to the german constitution and that the companies affected will have to receive a financial compensation. But if i come off to come to yours or. One of these its christmas rover on trade schools mr theres a form and a cure for want. And how to also just and dozens of us from here good to. Be leashed industrial in the traditional english for the new. Beagle going to be an indoor fossil mom gets involved. I mean its going to move i just feel even uses funds often to. Actually visa illusion. To get on to the. Country giving the for. The work of far. As he was cured and. Thus must. By the nice to insurance he says they should Spotify Vigna discontinued and this was stopped so long it can also be humbled to be undone in a key concern even lumbers has the haste and is an extended sheet skittish to gunnison more 20 of them in the spotlight as the sharpness of sorts for the woman of through about. 40000000 on a 1st impression and move on but i dont know of a case weeks in the field was seemingly out in the oil or. If i again. It is up to the German Government to set the amount of compensation to be validated by the bundestag. In an arbitration case its very different. The amount of compensation is much higher and is set arbitrarily by Business Lawyers with no democratic legitimacy and a considerable portion of legal costs 4. 00 to 10000000. 00 is to be paid primarily by the state. Your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know whats going to happen and when its going. 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