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Some commissioners “question” need for ISDS in TTIP : leaked doc

Controversies around ISDS within the Commission add to already high tensions between the S&D and the EPP in the European Parliament

25 juin 2015 à 15 h 57 — Joanna Sopinska

European Commissioners Jonathan Hill and Elzbieta Bienkowska are not convinced of the need for ISDS in TTIP — © EC

Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström has invested a good deal of her political capital in trying to convince the doubtful member states, hesitant MEPs and fiercely opposed NGOs that the reformed investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism deserves its place in the currently negotiated EU-US free trade agreement, known as Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

But it seems that the charm offensive she launched earlier this year has failed to convince some of her colleagues in the Commission.

According to an…