Volume 25 (2022), Edition 3

Towards the end of June 2022 the negotiators of the European Parliament and of the Council reached a provisional agreement on the Regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market. This article describes the main points of the...

The article analyses the interaction of the proposed new Foreign Subsidies Regulation with other existing instruments under EU law and international agreements that deal with or regulate subsidies from non-EU sources and their effects in the EU. The...

The FSR intends to fill a regulatory gap between trade law, State aid and antitrust law, and achieves this through a unique blend of familiar concepts and rules, drawing from the rich legal traditions of the EU State aid, antitrust, and trade...

Similarities between the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market and State aid law have been widely noted, not least because of their similar goals. This article analyzes overlaps and...

The Commission’s proposal for a regulation on third country subsidies inter alia provides for ex officio supervision by the European Commission, comparable to its supervision in the field of state aid. Nevertheless, there are significant...

As a result of an alleged regulatory gap, Chapter 3 of the Proposal for a Foreign Subsidies Regulation introduces a new tool to investigate M&A transactions involving a financial contribution from a non-EU government. This paper takes a closer...

Chapter 4 of the Regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market is designed to fill a regulatory gap, to ensure that foreign subsidies can be addressed in individual public procurement procedures. This article describes the...

The European Commission’s proposal for a regulation on foreign subsidies provides a novel instrument for regulating economic activities which are facilitated by foreign subsidies, and which potentially distort competition in the internal market....

Separate legal frameworks form part of the European Commission’s new strategic trade policy aiming at maintaining and contributing to the EU’s “open strategic autonomy”, while preserving an open economy within the Union. Investment screening...

Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe with immediate effect and also from the ECHR with a six-month delay. The expulsion was based on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine which actually began in 2014 and only intensified in 2022. It...

The challenge of adapting the customary international corporate tax system to the digitalising economy persists as a transnational issue affecting multiple States globally. In resolving such a transnational issue in corporate taxation, it might have...