Volume 21 (2018), Edition 4

In this paper the author deals with the legal possibilities for non-Member States to gain access to the internal market of the European Union. In particular, a comparison is made between Switzerland - which was never part of the Union - and the UK,...

Trade policy evolved in different regulatory generations, from tariffs to domestic legislation and what are called “behind-the-border-issues” (BBIs). They are predominant today due to enhanced global value chains and trade in components, calling...

Almost 20 years following the introduction of the euro as the official currency of member countries of the euro area, representation thereof is still not unified in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This paper analyses the interaction between...

By the help of two cases, the author demonstrates the impact of the Constitutional freedom of trade: In the Protective Vests Case, if BAFA/Courts were forced to answer the detailed questions of the User’s Guide, the answers concerning repression...

Section I describes US President Trump’s assault on the multilateral trading, legal and dispute settlement system, for instance through systemic violations of the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and by withdrawal from related,...

EU state aid law and international investment law seem to be inextricably contradictory, as recent practice suggests. EU state aid legislation does not regulate how it intends to deal with international investment protection issues - and vice versa....