Introduction.- Revisiting the impact of GATS on public services.- WTO procurement rules: in particular the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and services of general interest.- Regulating Public Services and International Investment Law.- NAFTA's Approach to Protecting Public Services: Fragmentary, Asymmetrical, Rigid and Limited.- Emerging principles of international competition law: Do Public Services Matter?.- Services of General Interests under Regimes of Fiscal Austerity.- A normative basis for EU external relations? Protecting internal values beyond the Single Market.- Ambivalence of the European strategy in external relations on trade agreements.- Public services exemptions in EU free trade and investment agreements.- Services of General Interest in the European Neighbourhood Policy.- Towards an International Regime of Regulating Electronic Communications.- Services of General Interest and the External Dimension of the EU Energy Policy.- The impact of free trade agreements on local self-government - The provision of drinking water by local utilities in Germany as a case study.- Health systems and policy space for health in the context of European Union trade policies.