The influential Paris Bar Council has set itself on a collision course with the European Commission (EC) after warning that Brussels’ plans to deregulate Europe’s legal profession would “jeopardise the [profession's] ethics”.
During the council’s annual conference on 21 November, the Bar’s batonnier, Paul-Albert Iweins, gave a speech claiming that the EC and its competition commissioner Mario Monti, were “calling the existence of regulated professions into question with the stated goal of fostering competition”.
