The article seeks to highlight the ongoing tension between the fundamental freedoms underpinning the European Union’s internal market and the Member States’ desire to safeguard their own cultural or economic interests through fiscal measures. In this context, the analysis focuses on the Amazon case, currently pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union, concerning the compatibility with EU law of the fixed €3 fee imposed i...

The coming into force of the new Romanian Civil Procedure Code, on February 15th 2013, has resulted in new rules on the civil trial with a foreign element, repealing the last remaining articles of Law no. 105/1992. This paper is the third of a series which aims to provide a general analisys of the new legal provisions, correlating them with the former regulation and relevant jurisprudence, as well as the European legislation with which it migh...