Germany
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15-Jan-2019 Medias24
Scholz vs Maroc: La Holding allemande réclame 60 millions d’euros devant le CIRDI
La société allemande, qui dénonce des mesures "discriminatoires et arbitraires" imposées par le gouvernement marocain dans le secteur de la sidérurgie, réclame 60 millions d’euros au Maroc.
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7-Jan-2019 Medias24
Scholz Holding (Allemagne) attaque le Maroc au CIRDI
Le litige concerne un projet d’industrie métallurgique. Scholz conteste une mesure de sauvegarde appliquée par le Maroc sur l’importation des déchets ferreux et l’exportation de fil de béton.
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7-Jan-2019 Morocco World News
German company requests arbitration with Morocco at World Bank agency
A metallurgical industry project is the center of the dispute.
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5-Sep-2018 Reuters
US arbitration court can rule on Vattenfall’s German nuclear claim
A US arbitration court has rejected a German government petition that said the panel had no right to rule on a damages claim by Sweden’s Vattenfall. Berlin cited a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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9-Aug-2018 Deutsch Welle
EU-Africa free trade will create more imbalances, say critics
Germany’s development minister has sparked a debate by calling for EU tariffs to be waived on African goods. Critics question whether import duties are really the issue, or are there other barriers to trade?
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4-Aug-2018 Expropriate
One hundred years of expropriation without compensation
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...
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24-Jul-2018 Axios
Merkel hopes for trade deal amid Trump’s tariffs threat
Angela Merkel badly wants a trade deal to prevent Trump from carrying out his threat to put 25% tariffs on car imports into the US.
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7-Jun-2018 Bdew
Position paper on the trade agreement between the EU and Japan
The free trade agreement between Japan and the EU pushes for more liberalisation - including for the water industry.
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7-Jun-2018 AöW
AöW-Position on the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Japan
AöW highlights the concerns of public water management in Germany.
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7-Jun-2018 GB Times
Germany’s Siemens signs Belt and Road deals with Chinese firms
German industrial and engineering group Siemens has signed more than ten agreements with Chinese companies to explore business opportunities created by Beijing’s Belt and Road trade initiative.
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1-Jun-2018 Asia Times
China’s Belt and Road a dilemma for Germany
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tried to ease Germany’s concerns over Beijing’s cooperation with 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, which many European Union leaders consider a threat to the bloc’s integration, during his visit to Berlin on Thursday.
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11-May-2018 Basta
Plainte contre la sortie allemande du nucléaire : une décision de la Cour de justice européenne rebat les cartes
« L’Allemagne a toujours affirmé, depuis le début de cette procédure, qu’elle jugeait la plainte de Vattenfall irrecevable », a précisé le gouvernement allemand.
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9-May-2018 Reuters
Germany says Vattenfall has no grounds to seek arbitration over nuclear phase-out
Swedish utility Vattenfall has no legal grounds to ask a US arbitration court if it can claim 4.7 billion euros from Berlin for forcing it to halt nuclear production, the German government has said.
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2-May-2018 Daily Express
Germany pushes EU trade deal with US in tariffs row as trade war looms
Germany is pushing a watered-down version of the EU’s Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in a desperate last-ditch attempt to head of a looming trade war between the bloc and Donald Trump’s United States.
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27-Apr-2018 Brot für die welt
Kritik an EU - Afrika Handelsabkommen (EPAs)
Mehrere deutsche Entwicklungsorganisationen haben an die neue Bundesregierung appelliert, die zwangsweise Öffnung afrikanischer Märkte durch die Wirtschaftspartnerschaftsabkommen der Europäischen Union mit Afrika auszusetzen.
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13-Apr-2018 9 News
Turnbull to push free trade deal with EU
Mr Turnbull is expected to discuss plans for a free trade agreement with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Ms Merkel running Europe’s largest economy and a key voice at the EU.
