Breathing Life into the Union’s Common Values: On the Judicial Application of Article 2 TEU in the EU Value Crisis
The EU faces one of the deepest crises since its formation. A dangerous rule of law backsliding in several Member States undermines the Union’s common values and puts Europe to the test. This raises the question of how to substantially address violations of EU values in judicial proceedings before t...
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Veröffentlicht in: | German law journal 2019-12, Vol.20 (8), p.1182-1213 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The EU faces one of the deepest crises since its formation. A dangerous rule of law backsliding in several Member States undermines the Union’s common values and puts Europe to the test. This raises the question of how to substantially address violations of EU values in judicial proceedings before the Court of Justice. Unfortunately, relying on fundamental freedoms, EU secondary legislation and even the Charter will not help much to resolve this value crisis. This Article takes a different path and calls for engaging with Article 2 TEU itself. Yet this proposal rests on a crucial premise: The judicial applicability of the values enshrined in Article 2 TEU. Based on recent jurisprudential developments, this Article will elaborate a framework for the operationalization of Article 2 TEU values and demonstrate how their judicial applicability can be construed. The judgments of
Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses
,
Minister for Justice and Equality
(“L.M.”) and
Commission v. Poland
will be at the heart of this proposal. |
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ISSN: | 2071-8322 2071-8322 |
DOI: | 10.1017/glj.2019.84 |