THE EUROPEAN UNION INVESTMENT POLICY

Abstract

The Lisbon Treaty empowered competence of the EU in the area of FDI. One of the main reasons to have single investment policy by the EU is that the EU has the better negotiation position for the future agreements in the field of FDI. The paper analyzes the impact of the FDI to the EU economy, reasons for introducing the new EU investment policy, scope of the new EU investment competence.