I find this Wikipedia article misleading and insufficiently nuanced. Regulations are still subject to the Van Gend en Loos criteria for direct effect. I think i

I find this Wikipedia article misleading and insufficiently nuanced. Regulations are still subject to the Van Gend en Loos criteria for direct effect. I think it's fair to say that EU 'law' is sufficiently different in nature from national 'law', even if EU regulations will usually derogate national law, to (in common usage, e.g. in the media) not talk about 'EU law' exaactly because of the risk of conflating it with the common conception of 'a law'.