Regulation of Debt Collection in Europe

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Ctlin-Gabriel Stnescu is Associate Professor in Law at the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark.

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Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers' physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing.

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Regulating informal debt collection in the European Union: An introduction

CTLIN-GABRIEL STNESCU

1 Contemporary European debt collection practices through the prism of the rule of law

TIBOR TAJTI (THAYTHY)

2 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices in Croatia

PAULA PORETTI

3 Debt collection services in Germany: A sector in turmoil

DAVID MARKWORTH

4 Abusive informal debt collection practices in Greece

ELENI KAPROU

5 Abusive debt recovery practices in Estonia

KARIN SEIN

6 Doubling down on debt?: Legal responses to private debt as a business model in the Netherlands

CANDIDA LEONE AND JOANNA VAN DUIN

7 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices in Poland

JAKUB KPISKI

8 Romania's struggle to regulate abusive debt collection practices

CTLIN-GABRIEL STNESCU AND ALBERT ALBANEZI

9 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices in Sweden

HAJO MICHAEL HOLTZ

10 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices: The U.K. debt collection industry: why regulation isn't enough

JODI GARDNER AND MIA GRAY

11 Can the Representative Actions Directive combat abusive debt collection practices in the E.U.?

AGNES HORVATH

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