How to Enforce the Fundamental Values of the European Union?
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https://doi.org/10.46282/blr.2021.5.1.243Keywords:
EU Law, community of law, fundamental standards and principles of the EU, rule of lawAbstract
This article contains the written, and slightly elaborated, version of a presentation the author made to the Bratislava Legal Forum Conference of 22 April 2021.
The topic of the Bratislava Legal Forum Conference: Law in Crisis and Crisis in Law, inspired the author to make a presentation about the state of play, in the European Union (hereafter also: EU or Union), with regard to the respect of its fundamental values.
The respect of the EU’s fundamental values concerns a crucial problematic. Full respect is a precondition to allow an organisation to function properly.
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