Legal Nature of the European Union

Content about Legal Nature Of The European Union from the publication “The ABC of European Union law” (2010, European Union) by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt.

Any consideration of the legal nature of the EU must start by looking at its characteristic features. Although the EU’s legal nature was set out in two precedent-setting judgments of the Court of Justice in 1963 and 1964 relating to the then European Economic Community, the judgments are still valid for the European Union in its current form.