Grundfreiheiten, Grundrechte-Charta und Privatrecht

Since its creation, the European Union has grown from a purely economic community to a political union. This development hit a peak with the entry into force of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in 2009. The author discusses the influence of the single market provisions and the fundamental rights of the Charter on national private laws. The first part of the book gives a thorough study of the structure of the four freedoms and their effect on national as well as international private law. In the second part, the author analyzes the horizontal effect of European constitutional values.