“The vote is back on again [at the European Parliament], scheduled for next Wednesday (8 July). The compromise would provide foreign investors with compensation arrangements not available to other potential litigants (eg workers, consumers, environmentalists). The TTIP negotiations have years to run, and opposition to ISDS will continue to build. “The lengths that European Parliament politicians have gone to, responding to public concern, demonstrates how effective and influential the campaign against ISDS has become. No one in the European Parliament is now defending the sort of ISDS that has been included in the already concluded EU trade deals with Canada, Singapore and so on.