{"id":8299,"date":"2020-03-31T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:07:56","slug":"eus-human-rights-talks-could-take-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=8299","title":{"rendered":"EU&#8217;s human rights talks could take two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>EU&#8217;s human rights talks could take two years<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Officials say meeting commitments to join the European Convention on Human Rights will be a long process.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Constant Brand<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2010-03-16T11:12:06+00:00\">3\/16\/10, 11:12 AM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-04-12T19:14:42+00:00\">4\/12\/14, 7:14 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>It could take up to two years for the European Union to fulfil its commitments to join the European Convention on Human Rights, according to officials following the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts, MEPs and judges will discuss what many expect to be protracted technical negotiations at a special European Parliament hearing on Thursday (18 March), which will feature Viviane Reding, the EU\u2019s justice commissioner. She is expected to present a draft of the EU\u2019s negotiating mandate to the European Commission tomorrow (17 March).<\/p>\n<p>Spanish centre-left MEP Ram\u00f3n J\u00e1uregui Atondo, who is drafting the Parliament\u2019s position on the issue, said he expects \u201ca long procedure\u201d due to the legal issues and national protocols the EU has to deal with to join the Convention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect six months of negotiations, followed by a ratification process of 12 months,\u201d said J\u00e1uregui Atondo. \u201cThe problem is that the EU is not a state, which complicates the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While all 27 EU member states are members of the Council of Europe, and signatories to its human rights convention, the EU as a body is not. The Lisbon treaty, however, commits the EU, which is now a legal entity in its own right, to join the convention as a way to bolster and protect citizens\u2019 rights under EU law.<\/p>\n<p>The move could complicate how the EU\u2019s own Court of Justice in Luxembourg will work with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p>By signing up to the convention, all EU laws, rules and regulations will be subject to the scrutiny of the Strasbourg court. This could result in a surge of new cases on issues ranging from the EU\u2019s directive on working time to rights of EU citizens living in other member states. <\/p>\n<p>Such a flood of cases would come at a bad time, because the court is already struggling with a backlog of other rights cases, notably from Turkey and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, said last month that he expects EU member states to agree on a negotiating mandate by June, after which negotiations could start. One of the tricky questions the talks must cover is how much the EU will contribute to the Council of Europe\u2019s budget as a signatory to the convention. <\/p>\n<p>Another dilemma is how the EU will pick a judge to join the 47-member judicial panel at the human rights court: since the EU is not a member of the Council of Europe it has no elected representatives to sit in the Council\u2019s Parliamentary Assembly, which elects judges to the court. J\u00e1uregui Atondo\u2019s draft report suggests the EU submit a list of three candidates to the Parliamentary Assembly, which would pick one of them on behalf of the EU. He also proposes that the Parliament send special representatives to take part in such an assembly vote.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the convention would not nullify or alter the EU\u2019s own Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is included in the Lisbon treaty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Constant Brand<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.nrlshops.com\/France-rugby' title='Cheap France Rugby Jersey'>Cheap France Rugby Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU&#8217;s human rights talks could take two years Officials say meeting commitments to join the European Convention on Human Rights will be a long process. 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