Rescue Package for Fundamental Rights: Comments by RENATA UITZ
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Rescue Package for Fundamental Rights: Comments by WOJCIECH SADURSKI
The Hungarian debacle is both a challenge and an opportunity for the EU. It is a challenge, because for the first time the EU faces the situation of one of its member states so blatantly and clearly violating certain principles of democracy and human rights protection, taken for granted as part of the moral values upon which the EU is built. (The first time, because the »Haider affair«, often invoked in this context, cannot be seen as a precedent, for reasons mentioned below.) But it is also an opportunity. An opportunity for the EU to demonstrate that it takes its ... continue reading
Rescue Package for Fundamental Rights: Comments by DANIEL THYM
The parallels between the emergency rescue operations for the Euro and the fundamental rights intervention of the ECJ in Hungary are evident: both cases reveal structural shortcomings of the EU Treaties and the advocates of „more Europe“ support enhanced supranational supervision and control. This return to the method of integration of the 1970s is risky. The shortcomings of the EU Treaties are obvious. The creation of the Euro has not been accompanied by a common EU economic policy and EU fundamental rights are characterized by asymmetry. It is unconvincing that the EU scrutinises the human rights compliance of accession candidates ... continue reading
Rescue Package for Fundamental Rights: Comments by PETER LINDSETH
I’d like to thank Alexandra, Max, and Christoph for inviting me to participate in this fascinating exchange. As an American, I feel like the outsider here. Moreover, I have just written a book (in part from an American perspective, but also deeply grounded in integration history) that argues that the EU is best understood as ›administrative, not constitutional‹. So it should perhaps be unsurprising that I am reluctant to endorse the deeply constitutionalist ›reverse Solange‹ proposal of Armin von Bogdandy and his team. I generally join in the cogent reservations already expressed by several commenters (notably by Anna Katharina Mangold, ... continue reading
Rescue Package For Fundamental Rights: Comments by PÁL SONNEVEND
The European Union could not be imagined without respect for fundamental rights by both the EU itself and its member states. It is certainly not possible to define the EU solely on the basis of this, but the respect for fundamental rights belongs to the very core of a European identity, without which no integration would be possible. At the same time, the EU needed 57 years after the establishment of the European Steel and Coal Community to have a legally binding written catalogue of fundamental rights having the rank of a constitutional instrument. No doubt, this hesitation was partly ... continue reading
A Rescue Package for EU Fundamental Rights – Illustrated with Reference to the Example of Media Freedom
By ARMIN VON BOGDANDY, MATTHIAS KOTTMANN, CARLINO ANTPÖHLER, JOHANNA DICKSCHEN, SIMON HENTREI AND MAJA SMRKOLJ Fundamental rights protection, once a side show, has become important for the EU, as proved by the newfound treaty recognition of the EU fundamental rights charter (CFREU), and the upcoming accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). At the same time the fundamental rights situation in a considerable number of Member States is an increasing cause for concern. This has mostly been illustrated with reference to minorities and asylum seekers. However, recent reports of organizations like the Council of Europe, the OSCE and ... continue reading
A Rescue Package For Fundamental Rights: An Online Symposium on Verfassungsblog
The constitution of the European Union depends on the fundamental rights situation in EU Member States. Hungary is the latest and most grave example of a EU Member State whose fundamental rights deficiencies are cause for concern. What can the Union do about it? What if treaty violation procedures and political pressure won’t do to get the situation under control? At which point ceases the problem to be an »internal« issue – in law, in politics? And how can the trap of massive centralization in the EU be avoided, if one broadens the scope of Union-level fundamental rights protection with ... continue reading
