This book, written within the framework of a research project funded by the European Commission Civil Justice Program, identifies the ways in which cross-border EU competition law actions can be best handled in Europe. Employing traditional library-based, legal research methods - as well as qualitative interviews with legal practitioners in Germany and England (countries sharing different legal traditions) and policy-makers in Brussels - the book considers how private EU competition law actions are functioning at the moment and how they could and should be developed. The study proposes...