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Republic of Cyprus’ New FDIS Bill unveiled: further details
By Pantelis Christofides and Dr. Thomas Papadopoulos, CELIS Fellows and Country Reporters for the Republic of Cyprus Following yesterday's blogpost, and as reported by Politis newspaper today, the new FDIS Bill approved by the Republic of Cyprus' Council of Ministers on 2nd July 2025, will include, amongst others, the following provisions: a minimum mandatory FDIS notification threshold of €2.000.000 is ...
Continue reading A New Cyprus Foreign Direct Investment Screening Legislative Bill Incoming
By Pantelis Christofides and Dr. Thomas Papadopoulos, CELIS Fellows and Country Reporters for the Republic of Cyprus His Excellency the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Nikos Christodoulides, during his opening address at the Council of Ministers' Session held on 2 July 2025,[1] made several comments, some of which concerned the new legislative bill on Foreign Direct Investment Screening ...
Continue reading Introducing: The Foreign (Direct) Investment Screening Regulation – A blog series on the revision of FDI Screening Regulation 2019/452
Authors: Lena Hornkohl (University of Vienna)[1], Andrew Hill (AmCham EU, Brussels), Floor Doppen (University of Antwerp). After years of preparations and negotiations, the European Commission, Council, and Parliament convened on Tuesday, 17 June 2026, in Strasbourg to hold the inaugural trilateral talks on the revision of the EU's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening framework (Regulation 2019/452) - the new Foreign ...
Continue reading CELIS Update on Investment Screening and Economic Security – May 2025
by Helene Schramm INVESTMENT SCREENING MECHANISMS European Union - European Parliament approves proposal for a wide framework for screening of foreign direct investments On 8 May 2025, the European Parliament adopted the proposal of a major reform of the Foreign Investment Screening Regulation, aimed at protecting strategic EU sectors from foreign threats. The proposed rules make screening mandatory ...
Continue reading Clarifying The Cooperation Mechanism? Exploring DG Trade’s FDI Screening FAQ
By John Kay and Floor Doppen Over the past six years, the EU cooperation mechanism on foreign direct investment (FDI) screening has progressively advanced under the EU FDI Screening Regulation (Regulation 2019/452, henceforth the 'Regulation'). Institutionalization of the cooperation process (through e.g. the expert group), setting up coordination cells in all EU Member States (MS) (contact points), annual reporting obligations, ...
Continue reading Collateral Damage: What about the Casualties of the Geoeconomic Turn?
Bálint Kovács* At the beginning of this year, the government of the United States completed its outbound screening regime, adopting the final rule to implement Executive Order 14105 of 9 August 2023 (the Outbound Order).[1] The Outbound Order focuses on three key technology areas: semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence. In an Annex, it also identifies the ...
Continue reading CELIS Update on Investment Screening and Economic Security – April 2025
by Helene Schramm INVESTMENT SCREENING MECHANISMS European Union – European Commission publishes first in-depth decision on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation in e&/PPF On 4 April 2025, the European Commission issued its first conditional Phase II decision under Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 - the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”) - in the acquisition of PPF Telecom by Emirates Telecommunications Group (“e&”), establishing a ...
Continue reading CELIS German Chapter Round Table in Berlin – 27th May 2025
CELIS German Chapter, BLOMSTEIN and Dentons jointly organize an economic policy Round Table on 27th May (17:00-19:00) in Berlin to discuss the impact of trade policy measures on investment decisions. In particular, the debate will focus on how new and complex trade policy measures on both sides of the Atlantic and their embedding in questions of economic security affect investment ...
Continue reading “MAL-TAming” – Malta aimed and Luxembourg tamed the Maltese investor citizenship scheme. Is there anything to learn from an FDI perspective?
Johannes Barbist (Binder Grösswang, Partner) Malta and certain other EU member states (e.g., Cyprus, Bulgaria, partly even Austria) have been operating schemes with preferential access to citizenship or residence for quite some time and partly still do. The standard strenuous path to citizenship or right of residence in these EU member states could be eased into a fun downhill ...
Continue reading The EU Anti-Coercion Regulation: A New Tool Against Economic Pressure
Georgia Tzifa & Mariia Shulha (Wilmer Hale)* As global economic pressures mount, the EU has armed itself with a powerful new tool to counter economic coercion. The EU Anti-Coercion Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/2675) has been fully in force for about a year (officially entering into force on December 27, 2023) and is poised to shape the EU's trade defense strategy. ...
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