The negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA aim at achieving a comprehensive trade agreement with renewed liberalisation efforts in trade, services and investments, while at the same time aiming at regulatory cooperation and rule-based...

The foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks of EU entities in the US and of US entities in the EU both amount to over €1.6 trillion. Investment access and protection is therefore critical to EU-US economic relations. On both sides of the Atlantic, criticism has been growing regarding the...

Negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States reached their ninth round in New York in April 2015. Discussions have covered a broad range of topics, and substantial work undertaken, in particular on the chapters of the...

Liberalisation of financial services is a controversial chapter in the negotiations towards a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The financial crisis raised concern that trade liberalisation could have an adverse effect on the regulatory power of sovereign states. This...