The European Union has become the
respondent of several international trade disputes. This book examines the right
to compensation for damage resulting from retaliatory measures imposed under the
system of the World Trade Organization in disputes triggered by the EU. Anne
Thies evaluates the implications of the EU's membership in the WTO for its
domestic system of rights and judicial protection. Emphasising the necessity to
maintain EU standards of protection independently of the external dimension of
EU action, the book offers suggestions on how the current gap of protection
could be filled while upholding the scope of manoeuvre of the EU institutions on
the international plane. Moreover, it places the issue in its broader context of
the relationship between international and EU law on the one hand, and the
discretion of the EU as a global actor and standards of individual rights
protection under EU law on the other.
