The present paper achieves a critique to the absolute protection granted to credit consumers, a constant tendency in the relevant case-law rendered by the Romanian courts within the context of the judicial intervention into the contract for the purpose of repressing the unfair terms and of adapting the foreign currency loan contracts.

The present study analyses the applicability of hardship în foreign currency loan agreements given that such a form of judicial intervention into the contract is now being regulated by the Civil code. The analysis refers not only to elements of comparative law and of international commercial law, but also to the part to be played, within the field of hardship, by the principle of monetary nominalism and by the classic and contemporary relevan...