The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CDFUE) has been published, coordinated by Alessandra Silveira and Mariana Canotilho. This initiative, pioneer in the portuguese language publishing market, had the collaboration of 58 Authors. In order to pursue this purpose, and following the most commendable comparative experience, the Coordinators decided to share the burden with several commentators of recognized scientific knowledge (with varying ages, inclinations and worldviews), so that the result could reproduce the diversity (intersubjective and intergenerational ) of the European project in which we are inserted.
Thus, taking into account the solution adopted, each Author is fully responsible for the content of his commentary, being the discursive continuity guaranteed only by the own organization of the CDFUE, and by the editorial harmonization of the comments. The choice of the authors fell on European Union lawyers or specialists in material fields of Union law related to the article in question, as well as experts in fundamental rights, although less set with the laws of integration law. In a context of inter-constitutionality such as that in which the fundamental rights of the European Union are protected, there must necessarily be room for all sensitivities.
It is hoped that this publication of the Commented CDFUE will become a tool to support Portuguese legal operators (daily confronted with the application of European norms and national standards that execute them) and a source of inspiration for the wide universe of interpreters of the constitutional law of the Union (in which we are all integrated). Being accustomed to the completeness of fundamental rights provided for in the Portuguese Constitution, Portuguese legal operators have not yet become familiar with the existence of a catalog of European Union competences and a catalog of fundamental rights governing their exercise – even though action of the Member States. In any case, issues involving fundamental rights protected by the European Union must be understood and resolved in the light of the CDFUE – which finally has an annotated edition in Portuguese.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CDFUE) has been published, coordinated by Alessandra Silveira and Mariana Canotilho. This initiative, pioneer in the portuguese language publishing market, had the collaboration of 58 Authors. In order to pursue this purpose, and following the most commendable comparative experience, the Coordinators decided to share the burden with several commentators of recognized scientific knowledge (with varying ages, inclinations and worldviews), so that the result could reproduce the diversity (intersubjective and intergenerational ) of the European project in which we are inserted.
Thus, taking into account the solution adopted, each Author is fully responsible for the content of his commentary, being the discursive continuity guaranteed only by the own organization of the CDFUE, and by the editorial harmonization of the comments. The choice of the authors fell on European Union lawyers or specialists in material fields of Union law related to the article in question, as well as experts in fundamental rights, although less set with the laws of integration law. In a context of inter-constitutionality such as that in which the fundamental rights of the European Union are protected, there must necessarily be room for all sensitivities.
It is hoped that this publication of the Commented CDFUE will become a tool to support Portuguese legal operators (daily confronted with the application of European norms and national standards that execute them) and a source of inspiration for the wide universe of interpreters of the constitutional law of the Union (in which we are all integrated). Being accustomed to the completeness of fundamental rights provided for in the Portuguese Constitution, Portuguese legal operators have not yet become familiar with the existence of a catalog of European Union competences and a catalog of fundamental rights governing their exercise – even though action of the Member States. In any case, issues involving fundamental rights protected by the European Union must be understood and resolved in the light of the CDFUE – which finally has an annotated edition in Portuguese.