Descripción del proyecto
Reavivar el espíritu integrador de la Unión Europea mediante el poder de la ley
Frente a los crecientes desafíos, la promesa de la Unión Europea (UE) de una integración pacífica a través de la ley está siendo puesta a prueba. ¿Puede la UE confiar en su marco jurídico para integrar pacíficamente una sociedad europea diversa? Con la reaparición de conflictos bélicos y sanciones económicas, y la autoridad de la legislación de la UE cuestionada por varios tribunales constitucionales, la promesa de una integración sin fisuras se ve amenazada. El equipo del proyecto RIGHTS-TO-UNITE, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, considera que estos derechos son puentes entre las personas, así como los ciudadanos, los Estados y la UE. Ello demostrará cómo la integración a través de los derechos puede tener éxito en una sociedad diversa regida por la legislación de la UE. En conjunto, el objetivo es elaborar una teoría sociojurídica de la integración a través de los derechos, que ofrezca nuevas perspectivas para la UE y sus vecinos.
Objetivo
Among the many crises of the European Union (EU), the fracturing of its promise to integrate the emerging European society peacefully through law represents a fundamental one. At the time of writing, martial conflict and pressure through economic sanctions are once again relied upon to assuage conflict in the EU’s neighbourhood, while the authority of EU law has been challenged by several Constitutional Courts, most recently by the Romanian and the Polish supreme courts in December and September 2021. The question thus is: can the EU still rely on the integrative capacity of its law?
RIGHTS-TO-UNITE addresses this question by placing citizens’ practical usage of substantive EU-derived rights at its centre. It conceptualises rights as claims between citizens as well as between citizens and states and the EU itself. European integration is defined as a process combining citizen into a coherent, though diverse, society. This approach captures whether and if so, how integration through rights can succeed in a multipolar society constituted by European Union law, both in the EU and its neighbourhood, while also specifying conditions which are supportive and averse to achieving integration of the emerging European society.
After theorising conditions for EU-derived rights to integrate the emerging European society in the EU and its neighbourhood, qualitative comparative research is deployed to identify to what extent EU derived rights are part of Europe’s living law in the EU and beyond. The qualitative research develops an innovative methodology comprising interactive vignettes visualising scenarios in which EU economic, social, and digital rights could be relevant. This enables cross-cultural exploration of citizens’ everyday experience with EU derived rights. In a final step the results are synthesised in a socio-legal theory of integration through rights for the context of the EU and its neighbourhood.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
4 Dublin
Irlanda