On Wednesday 6 September, Belgium made its referral to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) official, asking it to check the compatibility of CETA's arbitration mechanism for investor-state disputes (the Investment Court System - ICS) with the EU treaties.
Following an agreement reached on Wednesday morning at the committee for coordination between the Belgian federal government and the country's federated entities, Belgium's Foreign Minster Didier Reynders announced that his country had...