The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) takes the view, in an opinion delivered on Tuesday 16 May on how competence is shared between the EU and its member states in the signing and concluding the EU-Singapore free-trade agreement, that, as it stands, this agreement cannot be concluded by the EU alone without the involvement of the member states.
The Court says that the provisions of the agreement relating to foreign investment other than direct foreign investment (DFI) and those relating to...