Energy Charter: many open questions befo • Table.Briefings

Today, the 53 states of the Energy Charter are theoretically supposed to vote on the reform of the International Investment Treaties. Theoretically, because the EU continues to try to take the vote off the agenda. Diplomats say this means the reform has failed and an EU exit is inevitable. But the legal situation is not quite that simple.

The EU lacks the mandate to agree to modernize the controversial International Investment Treaties at today’s Energy Charter Conference in Mongolia. So has the reform failed? „The modernization process is over,“ is how one EU diplomat puts it, anyway. Christian Ehler (CDU/CSU), a member of the EPP, takes a similar view. The German government had „committed intellectual and political suicide“ by announcing its withdrawal and blocking the reform of the Charter.

Energy Charter: many open questions before today’s vote

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