Free Speech Meets Free Movement - How Fundamental really is ‘Fundamental’? The Impact of Fundamental Rights on Internal Market Law

Abstract: The fundamental freedoms, on which the common European market is based, have been present in the Community legal order since its very beginning. The fundamental rights, on the other hand, entered into this system later through general principles of law, mostly due to the judicial activism of the European Court of Justice. They have come a long way from not being considered at all to their full and explicit recognition in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, incorporated into the Constitutional Treaty. This paper aims at exploring the impact of fundamental rights on the internal market law. It will be devoted to situations where there are clashes between the fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms. The thesis put forward is that the process of balancing conflicting interests has to be anchored in the concept of allowable restrictions which can be imposed on the fundamental right at issue. The analysis focuses on the scope of the right to free speech in the Community legal order, m

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 32 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: ZERP-Diskussionspapier ; Bd. 3

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Bremen
• (when): 2005
• Creator: Krzemińska, Joanna
• Contributor: Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik (ZERP) an der Universität Bremen

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62963-1
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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