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In this special issue, a series of authors from all over Europe discuss aspects of both the proposal for a Representative Actions Directive and the proposal for a Modernization Directive. Both directives deal with better enforcement of EU consumer law and follow from the European Commission’s Communication on a New Deal for Consumers. In this introduction I will briefly introduce and discuss these papers in relation to one another.

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