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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shaping the Single European Market in the Field of Foreign Direct Investment 2014 by Philip Strik
The Treaty of Lisbon (2009) has brought FDI within the scope of the EUs Common Commercial Policy (CCP). In light of this development this book analyses the internal and external dimension of EU law and policy in the field of FDI. It takes four perspectives: (i) the operation of the internal market mechanism to direct investment; (ii) the implications of the Lisbon amendments to the CCP under Article 207 TFEU for the EUs competence and practice in the field of FDI; (iii) the interaction between EU law and Member States bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with third countries; (iv) the interplay between EU law and BITs that are currently in force between two Member States (intra-EU BITs). The book focusses on the extent to which the EU operates as a Single Market for EU and non-EU investors. In doing so it analyses the EU and international regulatory framework on the admission treatment and protection of FDI within to and from the Single European Market. It uses close jurisprudential analysis and examines the context purpose and evolution of EU legal integration in the field of FDI. It thereby traces the principles underlying the European international economic order in the field of FDI.