Balancing Security and Economics: The EU Investment Screening Mechanism

By Antonio Calcara, Floor Doppen and Dirk De Bièvre

28.10.2024

CELIS Institute 

In the EU, Member States and the Commission are increasingly turning to trade and investment tools to address national security issues. In the face of concerns over technology leakage, supply chain resilience, dependencies in critical industries, data security and a more acute perception of geopolitical threats emanating from foreign investments, the EU and its Members States have resorted to the adoption of a wide range of trade and investment tools as part of an overarching objective to attain higher levels of ‘strategic autonomy’  and ‘economic security’.

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