Law of International Organizations with a European geographical scope, with special emphasis on the Council of Europe, in particular with regard to the application of the ECHR. The EU law should be included in “European law” in its broadest sense, ie the legal systems produced and coexisting on the European continent. It is not unusual for the small and large European designation as regards fundamental rights. The first one refers to EU Europe and the second to Europe of the Council of Europe, both with specific sources, shared values, and common spaces of action.
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The New Paths of Fundamental Rights in the 21st Century: Globalization and Knowledge in a Digital Age as a Proposal
Fátima Monteiro Pacheco (Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP), Portugal) and Dora Resende Alves (Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8350-9.ch001
Abstract
The protection of fundamental rights is one of the essential elements of European identity. Thus, knowledge of the law is crucial for the realization and guarantee of fundamental rights: knowing the law must be the first of the fundamental rights that assist us. Despite the abundance of declarative texts, the lack of identification and visibility and the lack of knowledge about the gracious and contentious ways, continue to be barriers to the full affirmation of those rights. The authors present a review on the legal structure of this novel space in which we move: a common space without borders, a space of democracy, an area of freedom, security, and multiculturality. Elencare which rights to citizens and how to access them intends to give shape to a future portal of enlightenment. The approach will be tripartised by the portuguese constitutional system, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union.