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The charter off rights of the european uunion - Un instrument that centralizes competences at eu level?

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AutorPedro Coutinho
Cargo del AutorInstituto Politécnico da Maia - Portugal
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THE CHARTER OF FRIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UUNION - UN INSTRUMENT THAT ...
THE CHARTER OFF RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN
UUNION - UN INSTRUMENT THAT CENTRALIZES
COMPETENCES AT EU LEVEL?
PEDRO COUTINHO
(Instituto Politécnico da Maia - Portugal)
1. INTRODUCTION
Many reactions to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
as to other internation al instruments for the protection of fundamental rights, follow
a simple trajectory: fundamental rights are good things; no one is or can be against
fundamenta l rig hts; therefore, the more instruments for pro tecting fundamental
rights there are, and more institutio ns and m echanisms for enforcing them, the
better. Hence, multi-level constitutionalism for the protection of fundamental rights
works on a «the more the merrier» logic. Denying this «eviden ce» is equivalent to
an anathema, and therefore only those who oppose the effective protection of human
rights can, logically, undertake such denial. This simplistic and narrow na rrative is
at the heart of much of the enthusiasm with which the Charter - and other similar
instruments - was, and is, received and viewed.
Several criticisms can be levelled at this highly optimist iter.
Firstly, it ignores that this vision hinges upon a uni versalism of a ll funda -
mental rights that, at the very least, still ha s to be demonstrated. While we can
probably all ag ree that a select core of fundamenta l r ights are viewed as such
everywh ere in the world, even the concr ete content of these, and th erefore its
implementation, is culturally contingent, and highly dependent on values that vary
across nation, geography, ethnicity and culture. The notion of equality, for instance,
will h ardly be challenged by anyone as a fundamental principle. However, setting
apart what is equal - and therefore should be treated equally -fro m what is different
- an d there fore s hould b e given a diff erent iated t reatm ent-, i s a matt er of
interp retation tha t can prove hig hly controve rsial and le ad to radical r esults,
depending on who and where does the interpreting.
Secondly, it ignores the possibility of the multiple instruments for fundamen -
tal rights’ protection cla shing with each other, something particularly true in the
European space, where nationally pr otected fundamental rights overlap with regio-
nal instrume nts (for instance the European Con vention on Human Rights) and
European Union instruments (for instance the Charter and the Treaties themselves) 1..
1B. VAN BOCKEL and P. WATTEl , «New Wine into Old Wineskins: The Scope of the Charter of
Fundamental Rights of the EU after Åkerberg Fransson», European L aw Review, Issue 6, 2013, p.

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