Investment Screening

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Especially take-overs of high-tech companies by Chinese investors and frustration about the restrictiveness of the Chinese market for EU investors sparked a controversial debate about a latent "naivety" of Europe’s openness. Measures against the sell-out of strategic technological competences have been demanded by several Member States and parts of the European Parliament. While countries like Germany introduced legal changes in order to facilitate state intervention against unwanted take-overs, the European Commission proposed a new regulation to screen incoming investments. At our lunch meeting, we will have a look at the current proposal and discuss opportunities and challenges of the existing tool box that the EU and Member States have or should have to deal with incoming investments.