The recent wave of China’s acquisitions has expanded the perimeter of FDI screening based on national security grounds in many advanced economies. Only a few goods have been generally part of this protected perimeter, consistently with the methodology proposed by Theodore H. Moran according to...

Investment in infrastructure, especially network infrastructure, testifies to the basic human need to connect. The connections may be built and managed to alter economic and geopolitical equilibria. The progress of the gigantic Chinese infrastructural project known as the Belt and Road...

The 2006 Services Directive was designed to stimulate the free circulation of services within the European internal market. Owing to their relatively poor tradability and considerable political sensitivity, the services that had not been liberalized by ad hoc EU legislation were still mostly...

The 2006 Spring European Council assessed the competitiveness of the European Union, according to the so-called “Lisbon Strategy” started in 2000. The complexity of the Lisbon Strategy, and its poor results after five years since its implementation, required a renewed commitment, thus the EU...

Among the instruments aimed to attract internationally mobile investors, “special economic areas” can be considered as well-defined zones where usually offering low rates of taxation, and infrastructures and services accessible on preferential basis. Are those instruments effective in...