Anne MACEY Chief executive, Confrontations Europe Germany has just decided to strengthen its screening of foreign investments in strategic sectors, such as defence and energy. Why? What is at stake? The German government has approved on December 19 a draft law to examine and if needed block all investments in sensitive industries if a foreign business wishes to take even a 10% minority stake (the former threshold was 15%). This follows several Chinese attempts at strategic investments in Germany -among others- over the last few years: for instance, an innovative SME in robotics was bought back by Chinese to copy technologies and catch up more rapidly. However, a Chinese attempt to take over one of the main power network players has been fought back this year. It is typically a « critical infrastructure »: energy, telecommunications, media, with potentially an impact on the country’s national security. And what about Europe? The
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