EU’s Human Rights Protection Policy

• Authors: Ewelina Cała-Wacinkiewicz

Abstracts

EN

The overall objective of this paper is to outline the evolution of human rights policy in the European Union, with particular emphasis on the delimitation of time resulting from the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon signed on 13 December 2007, which revealed how strongly law is related to politics. Focusing on that issue is not accidental. This results from the fact that the European Union is an excellent example of an international organization whose priority aim at the moment of its creation was not the protection of human rights treated as an end in itself, and which in the course of its development has made the protection and promotion of human rights, “a silver thread running through all EU actions “. The specific objectives (though no less important from the point of view of the essence of human rights protection in the European Union) are: to show the systemic nature of the protection of those rights, the nature which is increasingly becoming part of the European Union, hitherto breaking somewhat the monopoly of the Council of Europe in this field; and to evaluate the European Union policy on the protection of human rights.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 5-20

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Ewelina Cała-Wacinkiewicz

• Uniwersytet Szczeciński

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201201

Biblioteka Nauki

2041647