1. Professor in Private International Law at National Distance University, Spain. I wish to express my gratitude to Professor Edwin Peel (Fellow and Tutor in Law at Keble College, Oxford). This paper was finished in the Institute of European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford, Faculty of Law) with the support of the Program Santander Universidades, and is included in the Project “Gobernanza y reforma internacional tras la crisis financiera y económica: el papel de la Unión Europea” DER2010-2014-C02...