Achmea, European Commission, European Law, European Union, Intra-EU BITs, Investment agreements, Investment Arbitration, Investor-State arbitration
The House Always Wins Remarks on AG Wathelet’s Opinion in the C-284/16 Achmea Case
The Opinion delivered on 19 September 2017 by Advocate General Wathelet in the case C-284/16 Achmea has already been widely commented on in the international arbitration community. The views are either critical or approving, but so far, they have mostly been focused on whether a particular legal point made by the Advocate General was right…