Session
Political Science & International Relations
Description
The European integration was primarily about economic cooperation, but the European Union’s role in protecting the core values in its member states. EU values were first mentioned in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union, and since the Amsterdam Treaty the community law has a sufficiently precise description of this values, which should be respected not only by countries aspiring to the EU but also by the Member States themselves. The Lisbon Treaty defines EU values as “respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.” Nowadays the EU has to face the phenomenon when some government apparently violate these values. In recent years, defiance of core EU principles by the Polish and Hungarian governments is turning into a political debate. The European Commission has taken legal action against both governments, and the European Parliament supports this course. The lecture would like to address what the European institutions can do in these cases? Is the current treaty of the EU effective to address these phenomena?
Keywords:
European integration, European Union, freedom, democracy
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-64-6
First Page
159
Last Page
181
Location
Durres, Albania
Start Date
29-10-2017 5:00 PM
End Date
29-10-2017 5:15 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.317
Recommended Citation
Kaponyi, Elisabeth Kardos, "Dilemmas about the core values in the European Union" (2017). UBT International Conference. 317.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2017/all-events/317
Included in
Dilemmas about the core values in the European Union
Durres, Albania
The European integration was primarily about economic cooperation, but the European Union’s role in protecting the core values in its member states. EU values were first mentioned in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union, and since the Amsterdam Treaty the community law has a sufficiently precise description of this values, which should be respected not only by countries aspiring to the EU but also by the Member States themselves. The Lisbon Treaty defines EU values as “respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.” Nowadays the EU has to face the phenomenon when some government apparently violate these values. In recent years, defiance of core EU principles by the Polish and Hungarian governments is turning into a political debate. The European Commission has taken legal action against both governments, and the European Parliament supports this course. The lecture would like to address what the European institutions can do in these cases? Is the current treaty of the EU effective to address these phenomena?