L’Autonomie De L’Individu Européen Et La Question Du Statut (The Autonomy of the European Individual and the Question of Status)
Loïc Azoulai
European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)
December 1, 2013
EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2013/14
Abstract:
French Abstract: Le droit de l’Union parle plusieurs langues, mais celle qui lui est la plus usuelle est la langue des droits subjectifs. La tendance du droit européen à produire des droits a un fonction de légitimation depuis les origines de la construction européenne. Ces droits donnent aux ressortissants des Etats membres la faculté de s’émanciper des formes d’assujettissement liées à l’Etat. Cependant, elle a aussi désormais des effets délégitimants. Nous nous rendons compte à présent que la production de droits et d’autonomie est facteur d’individualisme et d’indétermination ; elle conduit à la déstabilisation de certains dispositifs de cohésion sociale au sein des Etats membres. Partant de ce constat, cette étude a un double objet. Elle analyse, d’une part, le système des droits sur lequel repose le droit de l’Union, ses limites et ses contradictions. D’autre part, elle recherche dans le droit de l’Union des éléments susceptibles de remédier à certaines de ces contradictions. Elle s’appuie pour ce faire sur le concept de statut qui est récemment apparu dans la jurisprudence sur la citoyenneté de l’Union.
English Abstract: A powerful narrative exists in European Union Law that argues that the Union and its main legal actor, the European Court of Justice, have placed the individual at the centre of the European project. The creation of the European individual (worker/consumer/producer/employer...) is largely the result of a legal technique which consists in granting individuals with subjective rights opposable to the Member States. EU legislation and jurisprudence are replete with such rights. In the past two decades, the language of market rights has developed in the grammar and semantic of citizenship rights. This paper is an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of this construction by relying on the concept of status. A concept of status has recently emerged in the case law of the European Court of Justice. The paper argues that, beyond its purely rhetorical value, the concept may be constructed in normative terms so as to offer a new conceptualization of individual autonomy at the EU level. A conception that preserves the emancipatory character of EU law but is more sensitive to the protection of affected interests.
English Abstract: A powerful narrative exists in European Union Law that argues that the Union and its main legal actor, the European Court of Justice, have placed the individual at the centre of the European project. The creation of the European individual (worker/consumer/producer/employer...) is largely the result of a legal technique which consists in granting individuals with subjective rights opposable to the Member States. EU legislation and jurisprudence are replete with such rights. In the past two decades, the language of market rights has developed in the grammar and semantic of citizenship rights. This paper is an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of this construction by relying on the concept of status. A concept of status has recently emerged in the case law of the European Court of Justice. The paper argues that, beyond its purely rhetorical value, the concept may be constructed in normative terms so as to offer a new conceptualization of individual autonomy at the EU level. A conception that preserves the emancipatory character of EU law but is more sensitive to the protection of affected interests.
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Number of Pages in PDF File: 25
Keywords: EU law, subjective rights, individual autonomy, status, European Court of Justice
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