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Does anyone know credentials of the people negotiating these deals? Are they well-paid? If these deals' negotiations have to be secret and since so much is at
by Dwolb 11y ago
Does anyone know credentials of the people negotiating these deals? Are they well-paid?
If these deals' negotiations have to be secret and since so much is at stake, I'd hope my government would have the best negotiators, psychologists, economists, spies, or other personnel that money can buy.
- sandstrom 11y agoThis is some of the European side (European Commissioner for Trade): http://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/malmstrom/team_en http://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/malmstrom/team_en Regularly paid EU-officials. I think they are generally hard-working and well-qualified people.
- swombat 11y agoBased on ExpiredLink's comment elsewhere in this thread, it doesn't seem like the deal is secret at all? Here's the EU page on it: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230 http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230
- sandstrom 11y agoI some parts are still held secret; this is only the EU-side, I think the US are still keeping their citizens in the dark; and EU only started publishing some details after heavy criticism, it should have been transparent from the beginning.
- kuschku 11y agoAnd the EU side decided that all ISDS trials have to be done at a court that is staffed with judges from both contract partners and rules in public.