Ius commune europaeum novum – budowa europejskiego systemu kompozytowego prawa prywatnego (cz. I)

It is a great challenge for European Union to develop the internal market. European market economy, based on principle of free transfer of goods, capital, labour and services, requires legal cohesion. Within integrated Europe 30 legal systems of private law (including legal autonomy of Catalonia and Scotland) exist. It is more like kaleidoscope of laws or legislative chaos than single market. Simultaneously, emerging economies might realise their full potential by taking advantage over Europe’s structural weaknesses. EU, in fact, has not created internal market yet. Without legislative unification Europe could slide into marginalisation, becoming western peninsula of the Asia economy. Now, it is the time, not for domestic legislative reforms (harmonisation), but for solid growth and internal legal cohesion. Our current era become a global one. Without a swift changeover of policy, EU can turn into a global loser. The current state of work on European Civil Code, as well as the advantages of unification, will be analysed in the following article (Part One). The role of mixed legal systems for integration of Europe and the “Olson problem” will be assessed in the second part.