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- Title: Implications of EU's Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (Human Rights & Legal Affairs)
- Author : Crossroads Foreign Policy Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
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The paper will examine the solutions included in the EU Lisbon Treaty adopted recently which pertain to the human rights protection (1). Notably, the accession of EU as such to the European Convention of Human Rights is a matter of reality now. However, political and legal implications should be expected despite the existing optimism for establishing coherence between both systems. On one side, having the European Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms (2) and the European Court of Human Rights as mechanism for judicial control on respect of the Convention, and on the other hand the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union from 20 003 with the European Court of Justice. Thus, the analysis will attempt to answer the question whether the similarity and/or divergence of EU and the broader European system will strengthen the protection of human rights or will create additional confusion. Initially, one has to look at the specificity of both systems before launching to the core of the analysis related to the constitutional changes of Treaty of Lisbon which entered into force on December 1, 2009. The EU is a supranational organization established in 1952 as Steel and Coal Community. The main purpose then was the economic interest, the promotion of human rights was not a primary objective for the founders of European Communities. Throughout its evolution the fundamental rights rose as a requisite not only for Member States, but also for those biding to acquire full membership to the European Union (4).