European Union's impact on private legal systems of Member States - a conference at Montreal on May 2010

This is a hint of a presentation, made in French, at a  conference held in Montreal in May 2010. 
All the considerations are still relevant.  

A small claims Regulation (No. 861/2007 of 11 July 2007) was adopted by the EU to facilitate cross-border litigators involving small debts. 

Some European states (Germany, for example) had fast 'ad hoc' procedures for small claims in situations other than cross-border litigation. It was not the case in Romania. 

However, a New Code of Civil Procedure has introduced a national (Romanian) small claim procedure very similar to the European one. It will ensure that Romanian litigators have the advantages granted by European regulation in cross-border issues. 

This was an example when the European Union acted as a modernizing force about a national subject ( Civil Procedure belonging to member states). 
For some other details, one can refer to the paper at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2266399