 | Gordon Slynn Baron Slynn of Hadley - 2000 - 724 pages
...Article F(l)) TEU has now been replaced by the following wholly new paragraph: "The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States". Should any Member State commit a serious and persistent... | |
 | Francis G. Snyder - 2000 - 370 pages
...paragraph 1, EU Treaty, as amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam, states that "the Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States." Of these lofty principles, the principle of democracy... | |
 | Jochen Abraham Frowein, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christiane E. Philipp - 2000 - 624 pages
...belong to the competence of the Union proper. As provided in article 6 para. 1, the "Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for...human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of laws". A breach by a Member State of those principles may lead to the suspension of "certain of the... | |
 | Colin Harvey - 2000 - 376 pages
...substantive disagreement. The Treaty inserts a new art 6 TEU, which proclaims that the EU is founded on 'principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human...rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law'. One of the new objectives of the EU is to 'maintain and develop the Union as an area of freedom, security... | |
 | Federico Mancini - 2000 - 296 pages
...Amsterdam, which specifies that "Any European State which respects the principles set out in Article F(1) [liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law] may apply to become a Member of the Union". 2 JHH Weiler, "Problems of Legitimacy in Post-1992 Europe"... | |
 | Robert Harmsen, Thomas M. Wilson - 2000 - 296 pages
...June 1997, sets out a revised version of the general principles on which the Union is based, including 'liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law' (Amended Article F of the Maastricht Treaty). The amended Article further affirms that rights specified... | |
 | Morten Kelstrup, Michael Charles Williams - 2000 - 324 pages
...for the first time in the EU's history, sets out the various principles which lie behind the project: liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law. To a large extent, this article removes one of the paradoxes of EU integration: while the EU always... | |
 | Noël O'Sullivan - 2000 - 276 pages
...a shared framework for their interaction. Because the liheral cosmopolitan principles of 'liherty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law' are 'principles which are common to the memher states' (Treaty of Amsterdam lTA) Fl), the Union's simultaneous... | |
 | Catherine Hoskyns - 2000 - 230 pages
...in an amendment, now included in the preamble to the treaty, that the Union itself was founded 'on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms'. Gender equality has also been included among the aims of the Union and the way opened for further anti-discrimination... | |
 | Andr s K d r - 2001 - 276 pages
...procedures in this regard. For the first time, the Maastricht Treaty provided that "The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for...rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States". At the same time, a third pillar has been added,... | |
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The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States. 
