The Evolution of Human Rights in the European Union Treaties
The International Conference Education and Creativity for a Knowledge based Society – Social and Political Sciences, Communication, Foreign Languages and Public Relations, 2012, Titu Maiorescu University, pp. 163-167
Posted: 18 Mar 2013
Date Written: March 17, 2013
Abstract
Human rights has become an important concern for European institutions in the context of growing competences of the European Communities and later on of the European Union and thus with the transfer of national powers to supranational institutions. If the founding treaties that have established the three European Communities hardly surprised some aspects of human rights protection, all of the following EU treaties have introduced explicit provisions on fundamental rights, making them part of the European law. This paper focuses on the main stages of development for the European law as far as protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the constitutions of the Member States is concerned. The creation of legally binding instruments for the protection of human rights confers the EU an active role of guarantor of human rights at international level.
Keywords: The European Union, Human rights and fundamental freedoms, the European Treaties, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
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