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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12174

18 January 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 34
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Finance
Member States undertake to terminate all bilateral investment treaties within the EU
Brussels, 17/01/2019 (Agence Europe)

In several declarations, signed on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 January, Member States undertook to terminate all bilateral intra-EU investment treaties (BITs), following the ‘Achmea’ judgement (see EUROPE 11975) in which the EU Court of Justice ruled them incompatible with EU law. A victory for the European Commission, which has repeatedly considered these treaties illegal and infringing on the rules of the single market. 

As a reminder, bilateral investment treaties are...

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