Leaked document reveals EU attempts to push
MAI-like investment agreement in WTOIn a leaked document, intended as a discussion paper for an expert committee of the EU Council, the EU Commission sets out some elements to define a strategy on how to include investment as one of the new issues" in the comprehensive round of WTO negotiations (the so-called Millennium Round") that the vice-president of the EU Commission, Sir Leon Brittan has been campaigning for over the past months.
Read the full text of the leaked EU Discussion Paper on Trade and Investment (15 December 1998),
and compare it with the full text of the EU Commission's public discussion paper
International rules for investment and the WTO (January 1999).Corporate Europe Observatory has strong indications that several EU Member State have objected against the contents of the leaked 113-paper and have asked the Commission to come up with a new version, better incorporating the lessons of the MAI-debacle.
Therefore we call upon all groups that have been involved in the anti-MAI campaign, to ask their national government to comment upon the leaked EU document and officially dissociate themselves from this text. Such relatively simple actions within the national context would constitute a very promising international campaign (a familiar pattern for anti-MAI campaigners) to further reveal and thereby effectively stop the secret EU strategy to sneak in a MAI-like proposal for a Multilateral Framework on Investments as part of a comprehensive new round of WTO-negotiations.
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