Brussels, 14/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 14 December, EU27 justice ministers managed to sketch out agreement on most areas of the new EU regulation (unveiled in October 2009) on cross-border inheritance and the law that shall apply, but were forced to leave some areas pending.
When unveiling the regulation, the Commission explained that some 450,000 international inheritance cases are opened every year in the European Union, worth more than €120 billion, and families today face...