Article by P.D. Dagtoglou
The treaties establishing the European Economic Community do not specifically guarantee human rights as is usual with state constitutions. The Community is not a state with comprehensive powers, but an organization with specific, mainly economic, purposes. When the initiating treaties were written, it was apparently not considered necessary, expedient or obtainable to include provisions guaranteeing universal human rights. The treaties, however, do guarantee some important aspects of economic freedom and equality.
About the Author
P.D. Dagtoglou. Professor of Law, University of Athens, Greece; Honorary Professor of Law, University of Regensburg, West Germany; Honorary Lecturer, University College, University of London, England. This article consists mainly of a lecture presented at the Tulane Law School on March 31, 1981.
Citation
56 Tul. L. Rev. 294 (1981)