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Exiting The Euro, Frederick V. Perry, Wendy Gelman
Exiting The Euro, Frederick V. Perry, Wendy Gelman
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
The Crisis in the Euro Zone threatens to break up the Euro and perhaps derail the European Union itself. Many argue that a Member State exiting the Euro would be not only unthinkable, but also a practical impossibility, given the status of the “constitutionality” of European law, the treaties forming the European Union and the Euro, and customary European law. Europeans have been, for centuries, very creative in forging economic and trading alliances—some that appeared to be political alliances and even elementary union. They have also, on more than one occasion, attempted to confect monetary stability. Some of these attempts …
The Creation Of A Global Competition Regime. Where Exactly Do The Obstacles Lie–Practical Co-Operation Or Ideological Differences?, Mervyn Martin
The Creation Of A Global Competition Regime. Where Exactly Do The Obstacles Lie–Practical Co-Operation Or Ideological Differences?, Mervyn Martin
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
There has been considerable interest in the creation of a global competition regime in the WTO since its conception. It is an issue that has always emerged in the forum’s agenda, and yet, more than ten years later, the international trading system has been unable to agree on a global competition framework. Notwithstanding the current agreement to hold any framework negotiations in abeyance to enable the Doha Round negotiations to proceed, two interesting conclusions can be drawn. First of all, that the agreement pertains only to negotiation related discussions and not discussions per-se on the issue of competition. This would …