The EU Approach to International Investment Agreements

Abstract

The study includes an overview of the development of EU foreign investment law before the Lisbon Treaty came to force as well as the consequences after the moment when it became a binding legal document. The main research question of this study is in what way the EU has replaced its Member States in the field of foreign investment. Moreover, this thesis studies the EU foreign investment policy, its regulation in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty as well as analyzes the most important EU draft-agreements so far, namely the TTIP and CETA.