"The German economy is facing major challenges today," says Heinz-Walter Große, chairman of the Sub-Saharan Africa Initiative of German Business (SAFRI), at the spring reception in honor of the Africa ...
The view that Africa needs our support is deeply rooted. "But Germany needs Africa more than the other way around," says Wolfgang Niedermark, member of the BDI Executive Board at the G20 Investment Su ...
To protect public order and security, government investment screening has been tightened several times in recent years. In the 17th amendment to the Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance, however, the ...
The United States has tightened its investment screening (FIRRMA). The competencies of the CFIUS Committee, which is responsible for investment screening, have been significantly expanded. The reform ...
At the end of 2020, it was news that had hardly been expected: the EU and China agreed on key points of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) between the two trading partners. This brought t ...
On 6 March, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its verdict in the case of Achmea versus the Slovakian Republic. Among others, the proceedings concerned the question of compatibility between ...
Chinese company takeovers in Germany are currently being hotly debated. As such, the responses from Berlin and Brussels are politically motivated. For its part, German industry rejects protectionist m ...
In recent years, the German Federal Government has repeatedly expanded its rights of intervention in foreign investments. Three modernization rounds of the regulatory framework are planned for 2020 al ...
Investment guarantees are indispensable for German exporters. When investing in emerging or developing countries in particular, investors expose themselves to political risks that they could not take ...
By investing abroad, companies do not only face economic but also political risks. Bilateral and plurilateral treaties between states offer protection against political risks as well as clear procedur ...
