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Charter of Fundamental Rights Archive
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The EU and the death penalty
Posted on 04/08/2011 | 1 CommentAt the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, was not abolishing the death penalty but in fact bringing it back. ... -
Why bring back the death penalty
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsThe coalition government’s latest experiment in direct democracy is a website where people can post epetitions. If a petition gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be eligible for debate in the House of Commons. The epetitions website is here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/index.html. One of the first... -
Statewatching Europe – civil liberties, the state and the European Union (25 June 2011)
Posted on 09/05/2011 | No CommentsEuropean Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online: http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html Institutions £30: (Institutions wanting to book places and needing an invoice please send an e-mail to: office@statewatch.org with: CONFERENCE:... -
A deal with the Czechs
Posted on 03/11/2009 | 2 CommentsSo, a deal was struck with the Czech Republic to get the Lisbon treaty through. An opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, along Polish and British lines, was added to the treaty, and that was enough to satisfy the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus. (Read... -
Constitutional affairs: fundamental rights and the Lisbon treaty
Posted on 09/04/2008 | No CommentsFundamental rights and the European Union Owen Tudor, Head of TUC European Union and International Relations Department, opened the discussion with a rather succinct and elegant description of the dilemma in which the European Union found itself: it was set up in the 1950s with... -
What sort of human rights do we have?
Posted on 12/12/2007 | 3 CommentsAfter the protest about the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the European Parliament today, Conservative and anti-European MEP Roger Helmer asks, on his blog, “What sort of human rights do we have if we’re not even allowed to decide who governs us?” Read his comments... -
European Union Charter of Basic Rights
Posted on 11/08/2003 | No CommentsSummary of Policy Forum discussion – 19 February 2000 Report drafted by John Parry Introduction The Cologne Summit in June 1999 decided that “the fundamental rights at Union level should be consolidated in a Charter and thereby made more evident”. The Charter should contain [a]... -
Introduction on the European Union Charter of Basic Rights
Posted on 11/08/2003 | No CommentsPolicy Forum Introduction by John Parry, 19 February 2000 [A] Introduction 1. The EU is founded on the principles of “liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law” [TEU Art.6.1]. 2. At the Cologne Summit in June last year... -
Citizens in Europe, citizens of Europe
Posted on 26/02/2002 | No Comments“Democracy requires not only the people. You can create the apparatus of a state at European level, with a common frontier, a single immigration policy, a common foreign and defence policy, and a single currency. All the attributes of the nation state, all its along... -
Some thoughts about the Charter of Fundamental Rights
Posted on 11/12/2001 | No CommentsBy John Parry In June 1999 the Cologne Summit decided that the citizens’ “fundamental rights at Union level should be consolidated in a Charter and thereby made more evident”. It was therefore clear from the start that, while the European Parliament and many NGOs took...
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