Nullity/Voidness: An overview of EU and national case law

When we were first offered the opportunity to write the foreword to this special issue we were thankful to Nicolas Charbit and Concurrences for what we regarded as an opportunity to shed light on an obscure issue. At first sight, “nullity/voidness” is certainly not something that seems particularly attractive to deal with, but we accepted the task confident that, given the scarce attention that has been paid to such a relevant topic, it would not be difficult to write a foreword outlining the legal issues that arise in connection thereto. We confess to having naively failed to appraise the difficulty of the task to which we were confronted. When we undertook to work on this foreword, we realized the reason why the theme of nullity does not rank high in the list of preferred topics of EU