On the day after the latest chapter in the Greek euro crisis, in July 2015, a group of African and European lawyers published an article, on the www.ohada.com website, urging the countries that use the Euro to take inspiration from the success of the OHADA reform and base the single European currency on a unified system of business law, which would be a vector for the economic, tax and social convergence that is essential for the very survival of the Euro (Read the article of 24 July 2015 ).
After the publication of a survey of European business law that was produced by fourteen leading academics and lawyers from the Henri Capitant Association, under the aegis of the Civil Law Initiative (Fondation pour le droit continental), with a preface by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, a major figure in the movement for European integration, and the distribution of a summary to the highest authorities in the EU and its larger Member States, the European Commission has now observed that there is a need to create a European Business Code (Read the summary and the preface of former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing ).
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