...Commission, to address appropriate recommendations to a Member State suspected of a serious breach of the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights, and fundamental freedoms, including those found in the European Convention on Human Rights and the rule of law principles common...

...2000/750/EC of 27 November 2000, establishing a community action program to combat discrimination states: (1) The European Union is founded on the principles of...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to all Member States. In accordance with Article 6(2) of the Treaty on...

...provisions of the European Union, a similar link between democracy, human rights and the rule of law: The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States. And the same connections between democracy, human...

...on and made explicit reference to human rights, with article 6 of the treaty proclaiming that "the Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law." Further, the EWL had successfully negotiated the integration of a new gender equality clause into the...

...Europe A constitutional framework of the EU may be assumed through Article 6(1) TEU, stating that the "Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law". Jo Shaw identified a multilevel constitutional system. It currently consists of the 25 constitutions...

...orientation'. A further provision of constitutional importance is Article 6 TEU, which provides as follows: The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States. The Union shall respect fundamental human rights,...

...and, thus, now enjoys a constitutional basis. Article 6(1) of the Treaty of Amsterdam states that 'The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States'. This should be viewed in conjunction with Article...

...Article 6(1) of the Maastricht Treaty (as amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam), affirms that: '[T]he Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States'. It places human rights and democratic values at...

...expressly included in the Treaty on European Union. Article 6 of the TEU proudly proclaims that "[t]he Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States."'1 Moreover, Article 6 provided further that "[t]he...

...the European Union made protection of fundamental rights a central mission.55 Article 6(1) TEU The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy,...rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States. 50 M. Nowak, 'Human Rights "Conditionality" in relation...