EUROPEAN UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
EUROPEAN UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Summary/Abstract: No matter whether they live in Europe, on the American continent, in Africa, Asia or Australia, humans have rights and obligations that ought to be respected. Regardless of the obvious differences between people, there is one thing common to every single one of us – the innate rights. Theviolation of human rights makes us step down the evolutionary ladder. I consider that respecting and defending human rights represents a key characteristic of any state that wants to be considered democratic. The level of development of a state is also indicated by the degree to which it respects the rights of both its citizens and non-citizens. Even if in the beginning it was built on a solely economic foundation, the European Union slowly developed, taking on many of the functions of a regular state. Due to its ambitions of becoming a better connected major political power, it was forced to draft a document defending the rights of community citizens. The question is: when economic interests and the interests of community citizens will become contradictory, which of them will prevail? Will European Union institutions intervene the moment a powerful member state violates human rights or will they overlook certain slips?

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