EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights – challenges in the negotiations

ABSTRACT

In this article, I go through the main challenges we encountered in the negotiations between the EU and the member states of the Council of Europe on the EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. I particularly comment on the discussions concerning the co-respondent mechanism and the inclusion of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy.

KEYWORDS:

• European Convention on Human Rights
• EU

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1 Judgement 21. January 2011, Application no. 30696/09.

2 Judgement 23. May 2016, Application no. 17502/07.