Luxembourg Limits: Conditions For Investor-State Dispute Settlement Under Future EU Investment Agreements
Article from: TDM 2 (2013), in EU, Investment Treaties, and Investment Treaty Arbitration - Current Developments and Challenges
Introduction
The integration of "foreign direct investment" into the common commercial policy in Article 207(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) has started a process in which the EU is re-defining the scope and direction of its future foreign investment law policy. This process poses a great challenge as Commission, Parliament, and Member States struggle to balance the manifold and partly competing interests at stake and manage the transition from Member States' bilateral investment treaties (BITs) to EU international investment agreements (IIAs). One ...