How just is the EU, or: is there a ‘new’ European deficit?

How just is the EU, or: is there a ‘new’ European deficit? Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9266-1188 de Búrca, Gráinne Author aut Williams, Andrew Author aut Text xx# 2015 Verfassungsblog 2015-06-10 eng Let us face it: the EU affects the lives of many people in ways they perceive as profoundly unjust. Lives are dramatically affected by the policies of austerity, widely understood to be EU-imposed. With the Court of Justice appearing to stand for its own authority and EU autonomy at any cost; with migrants attempting to reach fortress Europe and drowning en masse as the EU cuts back its rescue services; and with economic inequalities in the Member States reaching new heights, could it be that there is a justice deficit in Europe, exacerbated by the European Union? It has never been made abundantly clear whether the achievement of justice is among the EU’s objectives, thus leading to a sub-optimal legal-political reality. There is an urgent need to address the question of justice openly and without reservation, and not to permit nationalists and Eurosceptics to monopolize this debate. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-just-is-the-eu-or-is-there-a-new-european-deficit-2/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20181005-111242-0 150610 10.17176/20181005-111242-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)