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  • The Relative Autonomy of the EU Human Rights Standard

  • LB, JHR
  • Journal:
    European Constitutional Law Review / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / June 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 September 2008, pp. 199-204
    Print publication:
    June 2008
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  • To this day the founding treaties of the European Union contain no legally binding bill of rights in the traditional sense protecting religion, privacy, family life, the freedom of expression, and so forth. As we all know, while the European Court of Justice initially rejected appeals relying on fundamental rights as found in national constitutions, the Court changed its position under pressure of German courts.

  • The Difference

  • MC, WTE
  • Journal:
    European Constitutional Law Review / Volume 4 / Issue 1 / February 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 May 2008, pp. 1-19
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    February 2008
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  • The difference

    On 13 December 2007, after a remarkable acceleration of the process under the German and Portuguese presidencies, representatives of the member states put pen to paper and signed the Treaty of Lisbon. Much of the ensuing debate, both in legal circles and among the general public, has centred on its abandonment of the ‘constitutional concept’.