“Sneak Peek” – CELIS Virtual Symposium 2021: Sovereign-Driven Investments – Motives and Consequences
At last year's CELIS Virtual Symposium 2021, Jaap van Etten, CEO of CELIS Patron "Datenna", gave some thought provoking impulses regarding motives and consequences of sovereign-driven investments in his keynote. Many thanks Jaap!
Other speakers provided interesting insight into the following subjects in their keynotes and draft paper/abstract presentations:
- Fair Play? The Politics of Evaluating Foreign Subsidies in the European Union
- The merger control tools in the EU Proposal for a new Regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market: The final pieces of the puzzle to ensure competitive neutrality in Cross-Border M&A?
- The changing landscape of sovereign wealth funds: implications for investment screening
- European Commission's First Annual Report on the Screening of Foreign Direct Investment into the Union
- The EU Draft Regulation On Distortive Foreign Subsidies – What, why and how?
- Industrial policy, competition policy and strategic autonomy
- Setting the scene(s): Investment Screening and Beyond
- Balance of Payments-Related Restrictions on the Freedom of Investment
- Political-economic theses on FDI
- Investor obligations through the prism of the EU foreign investment screening framework
- Geoeconomic Competition and Rival Models of Capitalism: Assessing the EU Debate on Sovereign-Driven Investment
- Geoeconomic Risks Associated with Foreign Investments
- Investment screening mechanisms in times of COVID-19: national approaches
- Economic sanctions as an instrument of foreign investment control - A commercial perspective
- Foreign Investment Security Review in China
- Creating assessment methodologies for national security threats
- The Evolving Concept of ‘National Security’ and Foreign Investment Screening Procedures, with Particular Reference to the Italian Regime
- States’ Shareholding as a Tool of Investment Control in Strategically Important Companies: Any Consequences for the International Responsibility?
- Economic Sanctions as Instruments of Foreign Investment Control
- What role for investment screening in international investment law?
- The International Legal Framework for Foreign Investment Control
- National security and essential security interests in the CJEU jurisprudence
- Italian Foreign Investment screening mechanism in the EU framework between health security, defence of national interests, and economic recovery
- The Multidimensional Scope of National Security
- Investment arbitration as a potential tool for challenging adverse investment screening decisions
- The Concept of Security: Reconstruction of the Origins, Scope and Meaning of an Ambiguous Symbol
- Foreign investments in critical sectors in the European Union: FDI control and other parallel screening mechanisms – interference problems and practical solutions
- Republic of Cyprus and Foreign Direct Investment Screening: Contemplating the Way Forward
- Regulation on FDI and emergency discipline: from Protection to Protectionism
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