03/03/2014 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
At an exchange of views organised today in Paris with Jean-Claude Trichet, former President of the European Central Bank, and Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights recalled the importance of respect for the fundamental values of the Council of Europe on the part of the European Union, including the European Central Bank and the European Stability Mechanism.
A report currently being drawn up by Michael McNamara (Ireland, SOC) on European institutions and human rights in Europe has the objective of examining the degree to which the decisions of these institutions are shaped or influenced by their potential effect on human rights, socio-economic rights in particular, as well as the overlaps of the roles and activities of the EU and the Council of Europe.