Below you will be able to find the VDMA priorities for WG 8, as laid down in our position paper called "the priorities of VDMA for the Trade and Technology Council between the EU and US":

1) Investment screening among allies should be minimized:

VDMA believes that American investments in the EU, as well as European investments in the United States, should be exempt from investment-screening regimes. VDMA doesn’t perceive threats to national security flowing from investments between allied countries.