DW DocFilm July 14, 2024
A little known provision routinely included in trade deals that allows Foreign Investors to bring investment disputes before an International Arbitration tribunal and multinational corporations to sue sovereign states for billions of dollars. But what are these tribunals who handles their cases and who represent the interests of the people after all its taxpayers who foot the bill. To get a clearer picture we delved deeper into in a pick system that circumvents National Court and effectively hands Foreign Investors the power to dictate the policies of democratically elected governments every n...