Screening Foreign Direct Investment into the European Union Collin
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2020-06-28
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The concerns about incoming Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in the EU are growing.
Especially when these investments are from China and if they are directed at strategic or high
advanced companies. Therefore, in September 2017 the EU adopted a regulation for the
screening of FDI based on security and public order. This study aims to explain the
establishment of this European Investment Screening regulation. This EU regulation provides
the member states with a framework for the screening of incoming FDI’s, creates better
European coordination and allows the Commission to give non-binding opinions. To explain
the establishment, this study examines the preferences of different political actors for further
European integration concerning FDI policies. The analysis mainly concentrates on Germany
and France. Secondly, it focusses on the EU-level of decision-making. It uses the theorical
framework of neofunctionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism to generate possible
explanations and conducts a process-tracing to check these explanations. This study concludes
that a strong preference for integration from Germany and France, combined with neofunctional
dynamics of European integration, form the most suitable explanation. The
implementation and possible extension of the FDI regulation should provide more clarity.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen