Conflicts Solution in the European Union: lesson to Mercosul?

Abstract

One may contend that, from a practical point of view, the development of the European Union integration process is due, to a large extent, to the supranational jurisdictional control exercised by the Court of Justice. Some commentators go as far as to sustain that certain Court rulings may be qualified as a "pacific judicial revolution". The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how the Court of Justice through a few landmark rulings has paved the way to exercise the jurisdictional control of the Community, conferring thereby effectiveness to the Community's legal framework and assuring the consolidation of such integration process. Moreover, some reflections are made as to whether this resolution of disputes system may fit into the Mercosur.