Human rights case law of the European Court of Justice, January 2003 to October 2003.

Lyons, Carole

Abstract

To review the development of fundamental rights in the EU in 2003 is to concentrate on an eye in the middle of a storm. Since December 2002, the EU has experienced its most severe political crisis since its inception, as the issue of support for the invasion of Iraq threatened the whole post-1945 Western European settlement. At the same time as the integration contract was threatened, with Member States divided into opposing camps on the issue of war, the EU was in the final stages of planning the pinnacle of integration by drafting a Constitution. More trivially, this period of time also witnessed the President of the European Council seemingly lose control of his senses before the European Parliament and degrade his office with an inappropriate jest about Europe's traumatic past. And, finally, all this takes place against the backdrop of ten more States preparing to join this exclusive (and often eccentric) club. It would not be surprising therefore to observe that fundamental rights protection appeared less significant than it might do in a less highly-charged moment of EU history. However, to the contrary, 2003 has witnessed important advances in the development of EU fundamental rights.

Citation

LYONS, C. 2003. Human rights case law of the European Court of Justice, January 2003 to October 2003. Human rights law review [online], 3(2), pages 323-354. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/3.2.323

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2003
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2003
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2003
• Deposit Date: May 3, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: May 3, 2024
• Journal: Human rights law review
• Print ISSN: 1461-7781
• Electronic ISSN: 1744-1021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 323-354
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/3.2.323
• Keywords: Human rights; Human rights law; European Union
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1674813