- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
in the European Union Category Political charters European Union bg ... Rights of the European Union image 01CFREU Preamble crop.jpg image width 250px image caption ... of document writer European Convention 1999 2000 European Convention signers Institutions and member states of the European Union purpose Consolidate and enshrine the broad array of rights afforded to citizens of the European Union wikisource Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union enshrines certain political, social, and economic rights for European Union EU Citizenship of the European Union citizens and residents, into Law of the European Union EU law . It was drafted by the European Convention 1999 2000 European Convention and solemnly proclaimed on 7 December 2000 by the European Parliament , the Council of the European Union Council of Ministers and the European Commission . However its then legal status was uncertain ... December 2009. Under the Charter, the European Union EU must act and legislate consistently with the Charter and the Court of Justice of the European Union EU s courts will strike down EU legislation which contravenes it. The Charter only applies to Member States of the European Union EU member states ... given to it in Treaties of the European Union the treaties . Background Politics of the European Union The Treaty establishing the European Economic Community did not include any reference to fundamental or human rights. The EEC Treaty was written a few years after the failure of the European Defence Community Treaty and the European Political Community Treaty . This latter treaty had included ... itself as a major political entity with policy ramifications beyond its economic aims. In 1964, the European ... could not escape what they had agreed to at a European level by enacting conflicting domestic ... of European Community law and that inconsistency with fundamental right could form the basis of a successful ... more details
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