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This paper is focused on the inception of the European Union\u2019s investment screening regime and the operation of the EU\u2019s screening mechanism as gleaned from the European Commission\u2019s annual reports. We first demonstrate that political discussions in Europe on the need for a screening mechanism were informed by a number of high-profile projects with Chinese involvement in the mid-2010s. While these were the primary impetus toward the creation of a screening regime, we then show that Chinese investments do not feature disproportionately in light of the EC\u2019s annual reports, and the landscape of the EU\u2019s investment market has remained largely unchanging in recent years. We conclude that the decrease of interest by Chinese investors may be due to multiple factors rather than simply to a stricter investment environment in Europe and that the image of a threatening China is useful for rationalizing regulatory innovation in the EU. This latter also indicates that the EU is out of patience for China to render its market more welcoming toward European investors and instead chooses to restrict China\u2019s access to its own market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The European Union\u2019s investment screening framework and China \u2013 a complicated picture Authors: Tam\u00e1s Peragovics\u00a0and \u00c1gnes Szunom\u00e1r\u00a0 In: Asia Europe Journal, 2025.09.22. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10308-025-00757-w Abstract This paper is focused on the inception of the European Union\u2019s investment screening regime and the operation of the EU\u2019s screening mechanism as gleaned from the European Commission\u2019s annual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11629,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[104,100],"tags":[797,802,798,800,799,801],"class_list":["post-11630","publikacio","type-publikacio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external-publications","category-publications","tag-eu-politics-en","tag-european-economic-integration-en","tag-european-economic-law-en","tag-european-economics-en","tag-european-law-en","tag-population-screening-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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