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Micheal Dougan When Worlds Collide
Micheal Dougan in “When worlds collide: competing visions of the relationship between direct effect and supremacy” opined that the principle of supremacy has been used as a tool to exclude national law which is inconsistent with EU law.
The primacy together with the principles of direct effect and of uniform applicability are believed to constitute not only the foundation of effectiveness of the Community legal order but also play the role of the pillars of the unofficial European Constitution.
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