EU member state investment treaties have been criticized for potentially deterring EU countries from pursuing desirable policy measures. This paper explores whether these treaties can nonetheless serve a beneficial geoeconomic function for the EU by safeguarding EU investments in five minerals...

This Perspective focuses on the thorny interplay between the global minimum tax regime and the global investment regime. Within that 'niche' of a high level of complexity and thus specialization, the Perspective answers the question: how best to minimize conflicts between those regimes.