The European Court of Justice, International Arbitrations and the exercise of (an unsatisfactory) St
Author: Elisabetta Righini, Counsel with Latham & Watkins LLP and Visiting Professor at the Centre of European Law, King’s College London. The opinions expressed are strictly personal. The recent judgement of the EU Court of Justice (“EUCJ”) in Case C-284/16, Slovakia vs Achmea BV, has reheated the legal debate between international arbitration lawyers and State aid lawyers. Albeit ultimately a case about the possibility of a private company to invoke an intra-EU bilateral i
