‘Do as I Say not as I Do’: EUtopia, the Ceecs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime
This article examines EU’s involvement in human rights from the perspective of a promoter of human rights norms. It is argued that a human rights EUtopia has emerged, i.e. there is a gap between the real and normative EU -when it comes to human rights – which affects the credibility of the EU’s huma...
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European Institute of Romania
2009-06-01
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| description | This article examines EU’s involvement in human rights from the perspective of a promoter of human rights norms. It is argued that a human rights EUtopia has emerged, i.e. there is a gap between the real and normative EU -when it comes to human rights – which affects the credibility of the EU’s human rights regime. The EU lacks a solid legal entrenchment of human rights and there are different degrees of human rights protection in the Member States which amount to different hierarchical concepts of human rights. There are legal shortcomings regarding EU’s human rights promotion to third countries, while the Copenhagen human rights conditionality attached to EU accession was vaguely stated and was not underpinned by EU internal human rights templates. Furthermore, the screening process of the candidates- by the use of double standards – entailed EU’s involvement in matters falling outside its own internal remits. Hence the credibility of the EU human rights regime is jeopardised by its attempt to export human rights externally– hence the normative and utopian claims – without having a real, substantial legal entrenchment of human rights internally. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-92cd04574e944a5f858b06ad4c3ae2b52025-07-01T10:48:50ZengEuropean Institute of RomaniaRomanian Journal of European Affairs1582-82711841-42732009-06-01925470‘Do as I Say not as I Do’: EUtopia, the Ceecs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights RegimeIngi Iusmen0PhD student (3rd year) at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow)This article examines EU’s involvement in human rights from the perspective of a promoter of human rights norms. It is argued that a human rights EUtopia has emerged, i.e. there is a gap between the real and normative EU -when it comes to human rights – which affects the credibility of the EU’s human rights regime. The EU lacks a solid legal entrenchment of human rights and there are different degrees of human rights protection in the Member States which amount to different hierarchical concepts of human rights. There are legal shortcomings regarding EU’s human rights promotion to third countries, while the Copenhagen human rights conditionality attached to EU accession was vaguely stated and was not underpinned by EU internal human rights templates. Furthermore, the screening process of the candidates- by the use of double standards – entailed EU’s involvement in matters falling outside its own internal remits. Hence the credibility of the EU human rights regime is jeopardised by its attempt to export human rights externally– hence the normative and utopian claims – without having a real, substantial legal entrenchment of human rights internally.https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_Vol_9_No2_DO_AS_I_SAY.pdfconditionalityeu human rightshuman rights protection |
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| title | ‘Do as I Say not as I Do’: EUtopia, the Ceecs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime |
| title_full | ‘Do as I Say not as I Do’: EUtopia, the Ceecs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime |
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| title_full_unstemmed | ‘Do as I Say not as I Do’: EUtopia, the Ceecs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime |
| title_short | ‘Do as I Say not as I Do’: EUtopia, the Ceecs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime |
| title_sort | do as i say not as i do eutopia the ceecs and the credibility of the eu human rights regime |
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