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Transatlantic Ties: A Strategic Dialogue on US-EU Investment Screening and Economic Security

Save the Date - 06 May 2025

The ½ day event, consisting of 3 panels and discussions, will focus on key investment screening and national security issues in the US and EU, including their impact on transatlantic trade relations. This exclusive event is aimed at selected US and European government officials, as well as representatives from business, private practice, finance, banking and academia.

It aims to strengthen a transatlantic approach (and ties) to economic security and investment screening among key stakeholders.

CFIS 24 - Investment Screening and Economic Security

16-18 October 2024 | On-site | In private | Paris (France)

The CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS) is the flagship event of the CELIS Institute, to be held in its 6th edition this year.

CFIS is Europe's first and foremost forum to discuss questions on investment screening and economic security.

Thought leaders in investment control and economic security from Europe, the US, and beyond discuss current practical challenges and influential ideas to sketch geoeconomic strategies for Europe.

Discussions in CFIS 24 are held in private (strict Chatham House rules apply). The number of participants is restricted to no more than 120 people in total.

Thought leaders debate European economic security both from a strategic and highly practical perspective. Participants are invited with the view to form a trusted community of economic security experts from business, government, and academia who deal with the subject matter on a high level. More here.

Transatlantic Ties: A Strategic Dialogue on US-EU Investment Screening and Economic Security

07 May 2024

The ½ day event, consisting of 3 panels and discussions, will focus on key investment screening and national security issues in the US and EU, including their impact on transatlantic trade relations. This exclusive event is aimed at selected US and European government officials, as well as representatives from business, private practice, finance, banking and academia.

It aims to strengthen a transatlantic approach (and ties) to economic security and investment screening among key stakeholders.

Two panels are focused on latest strategic developments in the US and the EU in investment screening and economic security, including their impact on the transatlantic trade relations and one panel is dedicated to “The Super Election Year 2024 in the EU, USA, and UK” and its implications on economic security?

Registration (free of charge) and more information on programme can be found here.

The first BDI and CELIS German Chapter Investment Screening Conference

20 Feb 2024

Globalisation is under great pressure ˗ geopolitical competition is intensifying, multilateralism is in crisis and the abuse of trade policy to enforce one-sided national interests is becoming increasingly prevalent. Calls for stronger investment controls at home and abroad are growing louder, particularly in the context of systemic competition with China.

We discussed the practical relevance of investment control regulations with members of the German Bundestag as well as experts from business, administration and jurisdiction. The focus was not only on national foreign trade regulations, but also on the German government's latest strategic concepts and their future design and utilisation as a trade and security policy instrument.

The first BDI and CELIS German Chapter Investment Screening Conference in Berlin took place on Tuesday, 20 February 2024, from 09:00 to 16:00, at the House of German Business (Amerongen-Schleyer Hall), Breite Straße 29, 10178 Berlin. More here.

CELIS Country Reporter Meetings

On 23 November 2023, we will have our yearly hybrid Country Reporter Meeting. Legance, our dear friends, have graciously offered to host this meeting in Rome.

The CELIS Country Report project aims at compiling well-informed open access analyses of foreign investment regulation, with a particular focus on investment screening in various jurisdictions.

During the Country Reporter Meeting, our Country Reporters will present an overview of as well as current developments and discussions on their national FDI system and the state of play of the respective Country Notes.

You can find the programme here:

2023 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS)

CFIS 23 - Investment Screening and Economic Security

11-13 October 2023

2022 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS)

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01-03 June 2022

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2021 CELIS Virtual Symposium

By invitation and CELIS Fellows event | 02-03 and 06-07 Dec 2021

2020 CELIS Virtual Symposium

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2019 CELIS Inaugural International Conference

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