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(45) The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Created on Friday, 05 February 2016 06:50 | Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2016 06:50 | 
An area of freedom, security and justice: general aspects
The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice Before and After the Lisbon Treaty
Sources of Law and Primacy
Judicial Review
The fall of the pillar structure attributes general jurisdiction to the Court of Justice and most notably removes the limitations concerning preliminary rulings in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. It will be remembered that in the field of visas, asylum, immigration and judicial cooperation in civil matters, only higher national courts were entitled to refer cases to the ECJ pursuant to Art. 68 TEC, 29 which undoubtedly compromised the uniform application of EC law. Moreover, the different standard afforded to EU and foreign citizens was hard to combine with the need to guarantee the protection of fundamental rights within the EC legal order. Finally, it should not be forgotten that, unlike the Member States, the Council and the Commission, the European Parliament was prevented from asking the ECJ to rule on the interpretation of measures adopted on the basis of Title IV of the EC Treaty.
(24) EU Integration
Created on Friday, 29 January 2016 08:29 | Last Updated on Friday, 29 January 2016 08:31 |
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: ELECTORAL PROCEDURES
DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS ON FEMALE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
2014 European elections: national rules
Electoral systems
In the Treaty of Paris, it was envisaged that the ECSC should be elected on the basis of a uniform electoral procedure. Similarly, Article 138 of the Rome Treaty included the following provision: ‘The Assembly shall draw up proposals for elections by direct universal suffrage in accordance with a uniform procedure in all Member States’. The Assembly approved such proposals as early as 1960, but found itself frustrated by yet another requirement of Article 138 which gave the deciding voice to the Council of Ministers with the words: ‘The Council shall, acting unanimously, lay down the appropriate provisions . . .’ The idea reappeared once more in Article 7 of the 1976 European Elections Act.
(30) Human Rights: Past and Present
Created on Friday, 22 January 2016 06:36 | Last Updated on Friday, 22 January 2016 06:36 |
USSR's concentration camps 1929 - 1960s - GULAG system
Human Rights in the Soviet Union: The Policy of Dissimulation
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Post-Stalin
Moving beyond the UN: The Declaration in International and Domestic Publics
Given the pervasiveness of government control in the Soviet Union , one might think that human rights diplomacy would remain within the narrow confines of the Foreign Ministry, or, at most, within the government sphere. In fact, various journalists and a voluntary association began promoting Soviet understandings of human rights both abroad and domestically. For these groups, international diplomacy was not distinct from domestic politics. Instead, the promotion of human rights occurred in a sphere where the international and domestic intertwined.
(23) EU Integration
Created on Friday, 15 January 2016 05:23 | Last Updated on Friday, 15 January 2016 05:23 |
REPRESENTATION
European integration has proved to be a difficult issue for governments in many countries. Political leaders make deals, but in some member states the public seems markedly unenthusiastic. As Geddes1 explains, ‘the intensity of elite level debates about European integration within the political parties and in Parliament has not been matched by a similar fascination about European integration and its implications amongst the general public’. Many voters claim not to know about, not to understand and not to trust the EU and its workings. In Britain and some other countries, there is a high degree of skepticism about what is being done on their behalf.
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