FDI Perspective No. 158: “A reading of intra-EU BITs in light of recent developments of EU law,” by Blerina Xheraj

This Perspective suggests that intra-EU BITs do not violate the principle of autonomy of the EU legal order but instead represent acceptable asymmetric economic relations among member countries. The author argues by analogy to developments on the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court and the EU mechanism of enhanced cooperation.

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