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"The report seeks to dress itself up in rhetoric surrounding the defence of consumers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Its context, however, includes dangers for both: consumers & SMEs. The rapporteur’s vision is markedly neoliberal, as is clear from the stress given to breaking down ‘barriers faced by those who wish to enter into cross-border transactions in the Internal Market and considers that, along with other measures, the European contract law project could be useful for realising the full potential of the Internal Market’. The liberalisations and deepening of the Internal Market that the EU has been carrying out demonstrate that it is big business that benefits above all. The present dynamics suggest that proposals for the harmonisation of contracts – still optional at this stage – will be implemented with these same interests at the forefront.
These reservations are borne out by statements in the report, such as that the optional instrument ‘must offer a very high level of consumer protection, in order to compensate consumers for the protection that they would normally enjoy under their national law’. It also stresses that the instrument proposed at EU-level, which is the same for all contracts in the European Union, is also set out in very general terms."@en1
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