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Podcast: The Linklaters Podcast
Episode: European Union Foreign Investment Operational Practice // Foreign Investment
Description: Episode 6: Global Foreign Investment Podcast Series
Christoph Barth sits down with Damien Levie, who heads up the unit on Technology & Security, FDI Screening in the Directorate-General for Trade at the European Commission, to discuss how the EU FDI Screening Mechanism is working in practice, and prospects for reform.Â
Topics covered include:
The organisational set-up of the EU FDI Screening Mechanism and how it has developed in practice
Interaction between the European Commission and the Member States
Process, transparency and duration of reviews
Potential harmonisation of activities which should / should not be caught by FI regimes
Possible r...