the existing Common Commercial Policy, the debate focused on the scope of the new investment power and its implications … for the practice of EU treaty-making, whether the “new” EU investment power was limited to questions of market access, and … whether future EU investment treaties would contain investor-state dispute settlement provisions. Meanwhile the EU Commission …

Slovakia) since the late 1990s, linking their take-off to the opening to trade and infusion of foreign direct investment (FDI … foreign investment as a share of GDP in the recent global history, and this has contributed to productivity convergence. We …