17.04.2014 - 13:25 [ Techdirt ]

How Corporate Sovereignty Threatens Democracy

As people have begun to learn about corporate sovereignty through plans to include it in TAFTA/TTIP, the European Commission has been trying to scotch the idea that it might allow corporations to dictate policies to nations. Here, for example, is a comment in the Commission‘s main TTIP FAQ, which tries to answer the question „Why is the EU including Investor to State Dispute Settlement in the TTIP?“: