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Suite à des retards dans la ratification de la convention du Conseil de l’Europe sur la prévention et la lutte contre la violence à l’égard des femmes et la violence domestique, le Conseil a demandé au Parlement d’approuver la ratification par l'Union. La commission des droits des femmes et de l'égalité des genres (FEMM) et la commission des libertés civiles, de la justice et des affaires intérieures (LIBE) du Parlement ont adopté une recommandation favorable le 25 avril 2023. Les députés voteront ...

The Committee on Legal Affairs is proposing that the European Parliament give its consent to EU accession to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters, concluded within the framework of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

The 2007 Lugano Convention is an international treaty that regulates the free movement of court judgments in civil cases between the Member States of the EU, on one hand, and the three EFTA states (Switzerland, Norway and Iceland), on the other. The convention effectively extends the regime of quasi-automatic recognition and enforcement of judgments that was applicable between EU Member States at the time under the Brussels I Regulation (No 44/2001). Whereas the EU rules currently in force regulating ...

Cette étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles du Parlement européen à la demande de la commission des affaires constitutionnelles, évalue s’il y a lieu de renforcer la coopération entre l’Union européenne et le Conseil de l’Europe. Elle s’articule en deux parties: dans la première, elle examine la participation des organes du Conseil de l’Europe au mécanisme de l’Union pour la démocratie, l’état de droit et les droits fondamentaux, ...

La convention du Conseil de l’Europe sur la prévention et la lutte contre la violence à l’égard des femmes et la violence domestique (convention d’Istanbul) est le premier instrument en Europe à établir des normes contraignantes visant spécifiquement à prévenir les violences fondées sur le genre, à protéger les victimes de violences et à sanctionner les auteurs. À la suite de la signature de la convention par l’Union européenne en juin 2017, l’approbation du Parlement européen est requise pour l’ ...

The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) is the first instrument in Europe to set legally binding standards specifically to prevent gender-based violence, protect victims of violence and punish perpetrators. Following the EU's signing of the Convention in June 2017, the European Parliament's consent is required for the EU's accession to the Convention. Pending Council's formal request for that consent, Parliament ...

Neither of the founding treaties of the European Communities – the Treaty of Paris (1951) or the Treaty of Rome (1957) included any reference to fundamental rights. Nonetheless, in its case law the European Court of Justice started to treat such rights as unwritten 'general principles of Community law', thereby granting them the status of primary law. As for the source of these general principles of Community law, the Court referred to the common constitutional traditions of the Member States, and ...

Both the European Union and NATO have sought to promote democratic security sector governance as one of the criteria for their respective accession candidates. Consequently, the Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYR Macedonia), Montenegro and Serbia – have begun security sector reforms as part of their Euro-Atlantic integration. The overall objective of these reforms is to support the transformation of the security ...

This study was commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee. Despite its increased visibility and relevance to fields covered by the EU, the European Social Charter has been largely ignored from the more recent developments concerning the protection of fundamental rights in the EU legal order. This creates the risk of conflicting obligations imposed on the EU Member States, respectively as members ...

A powerful international tool, the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) was opened for signature in May 2011 and entered into force in August 2014. It is the first instrument in Europe to set legally binding standards specifically to prevent gender-based violence, protect victims of violence and punish perpetrators.