TY - BOOK ID - 685179 TI - The EU Charter of fundamental rights as a binding instrument : five years old and growing AU - Vries, Sybe Alexander de AU - Bernitz, Ulf AU - Weatherill, Stephen PY - 2015 VL - 20 SN - 9781782258254 1782258256 PB - Oxford : Hart Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - European law KW - Civil rights KW - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union KW - Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne (2000) KW - Droits de l'homme (droit européen) KW - Union européenne. KW - Droits de l'homme KW - Droits de l'homme (Droit international) KW - Europees recht KW - Fundamentele rechten en vrijheden KW - Civil rights - European Union countries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:685179 AB - The entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 caused the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights to be granted binding effect. This raised a host of intriguing questions. Would this transform the EU's commitment to fundamental rights ? Should it transform that commitment ? How, if at all, can we balance competing rights and principles ? (The interaction of the social and the economic spheres offers a particular challenge). How deeply does the EU conception of fundamental rights reach into and bind national law and practice ? How deeply does it affect private parties ? How much flexibility has been left to the Court in making these interpretative choices ? What is the likely effect of another of the reforms achieved by the Lisbon Treaty, the commitment of the EU to accede to the ECHR ? This book addresses all of these questions in the light of five years of practice under the Charter as a binding instrument ER -