About the book: For decades the worlds of European law and international commercial arbitration have coexisted as distant planets whose orbits hardly ever intersected. However the dynamics of EC law and arbitration have been similar: both have been steadily expanding and gaining in scope influence and ambition. The relationship between the two has in recent years become complex and intricate as the Eco Swiss judgement of the European Court of Justice demonstrated. The author focuses on finding and analysing the origin and causes of the tension in the relationship between EC law and arbitration. Different methodological approaches to the problem of the relationship between EC law and arbitration inspired by European law or arbitration practice are analysed. Both the grounds of application of EC law in arbitration proceedings and various mechanisms at the national and Community level safeguarding its application are extensively considered. On this basis the author reflects on how th