| Summary: | <p>Last week, the EU commission presented its reform proposal for the investment chapter in the currently negotiated EU-US free trade agreement TTIP. The proposal has rightly sparked an overall positive response, as its many improvements set new benchmarks for international investment law. However, a more fundamental question, brought up again in the aftermath of the Commission’s proposal, still remains open: Why should only foreign investors, and not domestic enterprises, consumers and workers, have the right to claim TTIP provisions intended to protect their respective rights and interests? Isn’t an exclusive right to bring individual claims an unjustified advantage for foreign investors over other individuals and groups that are equally affected by TTIP?</p>
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