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The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP

The Investment Court System (ICS) proposal is not substantially different from ISDS and the changes introduced to the latter are so minor they might as well not have tried.

By Virginia López Calvo
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Anti-ISDS protesters in Brussels. Photo used with permission of author.ISDS. Many might not know what the acronym stands for, but many more have heard of it at least once.

Quite an achievement, since ISDS is not only an element of unsexy investment and trade policy, but also something that TTIP negotiators have tried hard to bury under a mist of secrecy.

What is ISDS?

ISDS stands for Investor – State Dispute Settlement.

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