2024 Year-in-Review I Holiday Break

2024 Year-in-Review I Holiday Break

By Kilian Wagner (CELIS Blog Editor, University of Vienna) I. 2024 – Economic Security Developments in Review With a busy year coming to an end, it is time to take stock of the main developments in the area of economic security from an EU perspective. A number of new policy initiatives have been launched in…

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CFIS 24: Paris Insights – Securing Europe’s Future: Investment Screening and Economic Security in the Context of EU Enlargement

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - November 2023

A Note from the Editors The CELIS Blog is launching its very first special series of blog posts ahead of this year’s CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS).  Our Programme Sherpas, promising young academics and practitioners in the field, share their views on the topics we will be discussing in the various panels during CFIS.…

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CFIS 24: Paris Insights – Preserving the Battlefield Gap in the Area of Technology: Between Export Control and Outbound Investment Screening 

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - November 2023

A Note from the Editors The CELIS Blog is launching its very first special series of blog posts ahead of this year’s CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS).  Our Programme Sherpas, promising young academics and practitioners in the field, share their views on the topics we will be discussing in the various panels during CFIS.…

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CFIS 24: Paris Insights – The Current Global Regulatory & Investment Environment: The OECD Countries’ Perspective on Economic Security

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - November 2023

The CELIS Blog is launching its very first special series of blog posts ahead of this year’s CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS).  Our Programme Sherpas, promising young academics and practitioners in the field, share their views on the topics we will be discussing in the various panels during CFIS. CFIS is the flagship event…

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CFIS 24: Paris Insights – FDI and EU Strategic Autonomy

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - November 2023

The CELIS Blog is launching its very first special series of blog posts ahead of this year’s CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS).  Our Programme Sherpas, promising young academics and practitioners in the field, share their views on the topics we will be discussing in the various panels during CFIS. CFIS is the flagship event…

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CFIS 24: Paris Insights – Sovereign Wealth Funds and Investment Screening

Simon Shargi-Erdmosa

The CELIS Blog is launching its very first special series of blog posts ahead of this year’s CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS).  Our Programme Sherpas, promising young academics and practitioners in the field, share their views on the topics we will be discussing in the various panels during CFIS. CFIS is the flagship event…

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The First Court (Interim Reliefs) Decision on the Dutch FDI Screening Regime: Setting the Boundaries

Najibullah Zamani

By Najibullah Zamani, Radboud University Introduction In recent years, mostly due to geopolitical developments, the perception of FDI by states has changed fundamentally. FDI is used increasingly as a tool to pursue geopolitical and security interests rather than as an objective in itself. As a consequence of this geo-politicization and securitization of FDI, more and…

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The U.S. Prohibition of the MineOne-Acquisition: What would be the treatment under EU and German Foreign Direct Investment Legislation?

Benedikt Sichla

By Benedikt Sichla, Research assistant at Clifford Chance  1. Introduction On May 13, 2024, President Biden issued an order prohibiting for national security reasons the acquisition of real estate and the operation of a cryptocurrency mining facility in close proximity to a U.S. Air Force base. The foreign ownership of the acquirer by nationals of…

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CELIS Update on Investment Screening – January 2024

EU –European Commission announces new economic security initiatives On 24 January 2024, the European Commission announced five initiatives aimed at enhancing EU economic security in the face of risks from profound technological shifts and increased geopolitical tensions. These initiatives follow on from the publication of the European Economic Security Strategy in June 2023. Amongst others,…

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The CELIS Institute together with BLOMSTEIN have successfully assisted AmCham Moldova in improving the national Moldovan FDI law and align it with best practises in the EU

The CELIS Institute together with BLOMSTEIN have successfully assisted AmCham Moldova in improving the national Moldovan FDI law and align it with best practises in the EU

Over the past three months, the CELIS Institute has brought together a team of leading FDI experts to assist the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Moldova in improving Moldova’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening mechanism. The team supporting this process consisted of Dr Roland M. Stein and Dr Laura Louca from BLOMSTEIN and Professor…

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