In 2009, the Treaty of Lisbon empowered the EU to pursue an international investment policy and to conclude international investment agreements. The EU's first steps in this policy domain have attracted considerable public attention. Analysts depict competing societal interests as the main forces shaping EU policy in this domain. This article scrutinizes this widespread perception. It argues that competence struggles between the European Institutions and Member States, which still echo broad Member State opposition against the initial decision to empower the EU in this domain during the drafting of the Lisbon Treaty, play a similarly important role in shaping EU international investment policy. This article enhances our understanding of EU policy-making in a highly salient policy domain and theoretically contributes to research on European Integration in that it shows that it matters for policy-making ‘how’ the EU received an underlying competence.

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十年的欧盟国际投资政策：意想不到的能力转移的政策含义

2009年，《里斯本条约》授权欧盟奉行国际投资政策并签订国际投资协议。欧盟在这一政策领域的第一步引起了公众的广泛关注。分析人士将竞争中的社会利益描述为塑造该领域欧盟政策的主要力量。本文仔细研究了这种普遍的看法。它辩称，欧洲机构与成员国之间的能力争夺仍在引起成员国广泛反对，反对在起草《里斯本条约》期间最初在这一领域赋予欧盟权力的决定，这在制定欧盟国际投资政策方面也起着类似的重要作用。 。