Benelux Investment Regulation Review

01.12.2013

Foreign direct investment – loosely defined here as an investment made by an entity based in a certain country into an entity based in another country – plays a central role in many aspects of international economic integration. Stibbe wrote the chapters on Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.

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