Abstract
With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union (EU) has gained new competences in the area of international investment law and politics. With a global economic weight equal to one quarter of global GDP and nearly half of global foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows, the EU’s potential in investment negotiations since the transfer of competence is readily evident. Together with the other two economic heavyweights, China and the US, it should be possible for the EU to give international investment law the necessary new face in reacting to partly reasoned critique; at the same time it is necessary to discuss the topic in a more objective way.
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Bungenberg, M. (2015). Towards a more balanced international investment law 2.0? In Trade Policy Between Law, Diplomacy and Scholarship: Liber Amicorum in Memoriam Horst G. Krenzler (pp. 15–37). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15690-3_4
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