On Foreign Investment and Merger Controls : A Law and Geoeconomics View

The essay provides a brief overview of the transition that occurred in major legal systems from golden share to golden power provisions in order to protect national strategic interests in the economic field, with a focus on Italy. A closer look is then dedicated to a recent proposal for an EU regulation on foreign investment control.Final thoughts are developed in light of recent lines of social science research, pointing at the existence of geoeconomic contests in a context of economic wars