The fate of the European Parliament’s draft resolution on a non-binding set of recommendations for the EU-US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is hanging in the balance due to strong disagreement over the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism.
The political compromise reached between the Conservatives and Socialists ahead of the vote in the EP’s Committee on Trade (INTA) on 28 May seems to be no longer valid after the S&D tabled Amendment 115 explicitly calling for…