Press Release: EU Charter is making fundamental rights a reality for citizens

Three years after it became legally binding, the impact of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights is increasingly clear. It is becoming a point of reference not only for the EU institutions when drawing up legislation but also for the European and national courts, making fundamental rights a reality for citizens in Europe. These are the findings of the third annual report on the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights published 8 May 2013, covering 2012, which illustrates with a wide range of fundamental rights related cases that the EU is continuing to build a more coherent system for protecting people’s fundamental rights.

This report is accompanied by a new progress report on equality between women and men during 2012 and it coincides with a series of new actions to reinforce citizens’ rights that the Commission has put forward in its 2013 EU Citizenship Report.

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ESO: Background Information: EU Citizenship: Commission proposes 12 new actions to boost citizens' rights http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-eu-citizenship-commission-proposes-12-new-actions-to-boost-citizens-rights/

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