Economic Aspects of USA Investments to the European Union Member States

Abstract

The EU and the US are the biggest economic and military powers in the world, despite the lack of a common EU defence policy. They dominate global trade, they play the leading roles in international political relations and what one says matters a great deal not only to the other, but also to the rest of the world. And yet they have regularly disagreed with each other on a wide range of specific issues, as well as having often quite different political, economic, and social agendas. The international relations of EU and US are based on some basic points such as economy, politics, law and culture. All of them are connected and no one should be omitted while communicating. In order to maintain good relations between EU and US special attention must be paid on these four points of partnership. Thus, various agreements, meetings, contracts, protocols and etc., require mutual understanding between both sides and understanding of the cultures gradually became an integral part of the communication. Regarding that, the problem examined in the research paper is how economic aspects impacts foreign direct investments to the EU member states? The outcomes of the research is significant and relevant, because it can contribute to further research related to investments and their trends. The aim of the article is to investigate the economic aspects of USA’s foreign direct investments to the EU member states. The object of the analysis is USA’s investment partnership with the EU. The tasks of the article are: to identify the specificity of EU investment policy with USA; to make the research in order to classify economic investment fields in the EU member states; to generalize the main investment trends in EU member states.[...]