The navel-gazing about the EU that has accompanied its decidedly low-key 50th anniversary celebrations reminds me of the gag in the film Monty Python’s Life Of Brian asking “what have the Romans ever done for us?”.
For a decidedly more upbeat diagnosis of the state of the union, you could do worse than revisit an opinion piece Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer senior partner Guy Morton penned for Legal Week last October (see article) in which he praised the European Commission’s (EC’s) efforts to remove the barriers to cross-border M&A in Europe.
