Being applicable to succession to the estate of deceased persons on or after 17 August 2015, the Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession opens up a new stage in establishing the European private international law. The Regulation does ...

The autonomous system of law, established by the Treaties of Rome, has developed enormously in the past six decades as the European Economic Community, focused – as its name suggests – primarily on the purely economic aspects of integration, became first the European Community and ultimately the European Union. In order to mark the fascinating story of that evolution – from a Europe of markets to a Europe of citizens – and of the ro...