The Legal Dimension of the EU Digital Partnerships: Unicorns or Chameleons?

Since legal scholarship has not addressed EU Digital Partnerships in depth, it is deemed appropriate to examine them in order to better understand how the Union is addressing the challenge of digitization within the broader framework of the Multilateral Trading System. Specifically, the question behind this work is whether—in light of their underlying objectives, nature, and content—the four DPs are one-of-a-kind mechanisms or merely transitional solutions destined to blend into the landscape of international instruments aimed at establishing superficial forms of collaboration.