The European Union Faces the Crisis of the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Tensions Between Multilateralism and Unilateralism in International Trade Law
The paper explores the reaction that the European Union has put in place in order
to face the crisis of the Appellate Body, one of the pillars of the complex mechanism that
governs the settlement of international trade disputes in the framework of the World Trade
Organization (WTO). Objective of the Union’s action is to preserve as much as possible the
rule-based character of the system in a very difficult situation where multilateral trade
relations based on shared and mutually accepted rules appear in jeopardy for the blockage of