Migration Policies and Constitutional Coherence: A Perspective from the European Union’s Fundamental Values and Rights
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https://doi.org/10.5944/trc.56.2025.47075Keywords:
Migration policies, judicial obligation of consistent interpretation, constitutional coherence, fundamental rights of the European Union, values of Article 2 TEU.Abstract
The aim of these pages is, on the one hand, to point out the existence of certain measures and decisions of public authorities, in the field of European and national policies on migration and asylum, that generate doubts or suspicions about their congruence or consistency with the values of Article 2 TEU and the fundamental rights of the EU. On the other hand, the aim is also to point out, also, what could or should be, following the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the action of the national
judge to try to ensure this consistency. It should be borne in mind that this congruence must appear not only in
the creation of normative provisions, whether European or national, but also in their interpretation and application, especially in judicial interpretation and application. Ultimately, this analysis will help to emphasize that, in the national sphere of action of Union law, also in the area of migration and asylum policies, the «new» rights—those of the EU Charter, which acquired legally binding force with the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon (2009)—as well as the values of Article 2 TEU, also amended by that Treaty, must govern and prevail. And that the judge in charge of their protection at the internal level is the national judge who applies Union law, a judge obliged to interpret national law in accordance with Union law, and in particular, with its values and fundamental rights.
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