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Ten years after the establishment of the Panel 255 is, therefore, this article makes a first assessment on how this body improved the transparency of the mechanism to select Judges and Advocate-General of the ECJ and the General Court (GC).

The Achmea case has generated much controversy and fierce criticism from investment lawyers and international law specialists. This Special Section takes such reaction as an invitation to investigate the premises and the impressive set of consequences inferred from the judgment, both for investment arbitration and the European integration process. But the Achmea judgment is not only about how EU law interacts with international investment law.