Focus: Europe’s Justice Deficit

The EU affects the lives of many people in ways they perceive as profoundly unjust. Lives are dramatically affected by the policies of austerity, widely understood to be EU-imposed. With the Court of Justice appearing to stand for its own authority and EU autonomy at any cost; with migrants attempting to reach fortress Europe and drowning en masse as the EU cuts back its rescue services; and with economic inequalities in the Member States reaching new heights, could it be that there is a justice deficit in Europe, exacerbated by the European Union?

There is an urgent need to address the question of justice as an EU objective openly and without reservation, and not to permit nationalists and Eurosceptics to monopolise this debate. On the occasion of the newly launched book 'Europe’s Justice Deficit?', co-edited by EU constitutional law scholars Dimitry Kochenov, Gráinne de Búrca and Andrew Williams, we put this question up for debate.

Hart Publishing: Europe's Justice Deficit?, 2015 (Edited by Dimitry Kochenov, Gráinne de Búrca, Andrew Williams) http://www.hartpub.co.uk/BookDetails.aspx?ISBN=9781849465274

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