Conflict Of Laws in Europe

Definition of Conflict Of Laws

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Definition of Conflict Of Laws is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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Conflict Between Union Law and National Law

However, the relationship between Union law and national law is also characterised by an occasional ‘clash’ or conflict between the Union legal order and the national legal orders. Such a situation always arises when a provision of Union law confers rights and imposes obligations directly upon Union citizens while its content conflicts with a rule of national law. Concealed behind this apparently simple problem area are two fundamental questions underlying the construction of the EU, the answers to which were destined to become the acid test for the existence of the EU legal order, namely the direct applicability of Union law and the primacy of Union law over conflicting national law.