The European Union as Protector and Promoter of Equality
Editors: Giegerich, Thomas (Ed.)
Free Preview- Deals with the understanding of the EU as a project with an important antidiscrimination goalAnalyses the principle of equality as a fundamental value of the EUOffers a collection of essays examining the topic from various intra- and extra-European angles
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This book considers the European Union as a project with a major antidiscrimination goal, which is important to remember at a time of increasing resentment against particularly exposed groups, especially migrants, refugees, members of ethnic or religious minorities and LGBTI persons. While equality and non-discrimination have long been core principles of the international community as a whole, as is made obvious by the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they have shaped European integration in a particular way. The concepts of diversity, pluralism and equality have always been inherent in that process, the EU being virtually founded on the values of equality and non-discrimination. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU contains the most modern and extensive catalogue of prohibited grounds of discrimination, supplementing the catalogue enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. EU law has given new impulses to antidiscrimination law both within Europe and beyond. The contributions to this book focus on how effective and credible the EU has been in combatting discrimination inside and outside Europe. The authors present different (mostly legal) aspects of that topic and examine them from various intra- and extra-European angles.
- About the authors
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Thomas Giegerich is Director of the Europa-Institut, Professor of European Law, Public International Law and Public Law at Saarland University/Germany as well as holder of the Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration, Antidiscrimination, Human Rights and Diversity. His main fields of research are European Law (EU Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights, Antidiscrimination Law) and Public International Law, particularly International Human Rights Law.
- Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Introduction: Is the European Union a Credible Protagonist of Equality in Europe and the Wider World?
Pages 1-10
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Are Equality and Non-Discrimination Part of the EU’s Constitutional Identity?
Pages 13-24
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Equality and Non-Discrimination as an Integral Part of the EU Constitutional Identity
Pages 25-44
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The Political Dimensions of Equality in the European Union: Equality of Union Citizens and Equality of Member States in a Supranational Representative Democracy
Pages 45-95
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The Protection and Promotion of Language Equality in the EU: Gaps, Paradoxes, and Double Standards
Pages 97-112
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The European Union as Protector and Promoter of Equality
- Editors
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- Thomas Giegerich
- Series Title
- European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-43764-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-43764-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-43763-3
- Series ISSN
- 2524-8928
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 502
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
