On Sino-European investment relations: exploring the impact of a European FDI regulatory shift on the footprint of Chinese investors in the Eu

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Afonso Barreiros
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/130982
• topic: China; European Union; FDI; Soes; Eu regulations; FDI screening; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Recent years have seen a shift in the European attitude towards IFDI, both on a Member State’s dimension as on a macro, EU institutional dimension, leading to harsher regulatory trajectories being taken. Some hold that Chinese FDI in the Union has been the main perpetrator of this attitude and regulatory shift. This paper correlates the various dimensions of concern to offer the reader a synoptic but global view on this issue affecting the EU as a whole. It tries to ascertain the possible implications for both regions and, more specifically, to what extent may this trend be related with the changing footprint of Chinese investors in the EU, noticeable from recent years’ data. The report argues that the recent crash in Chinese FDI to the EU is mildly related with the regulatory environment now enveloping the region, and, because the desire to invest can be seen to remain in Chinese investors, negotiations and agreements between the parties will now be more likely to happen.