EU Competition Enforcement and Compliance with Fundamental Rights’ Standards: The Challenge and the Promise of Accession to the ECHR

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Arianna Andreangeli, Jul 15, 2015

The question of the compliance of the framework and the procedures for the enforcement of the EU competition rules with human rights’ rules has been a vexed subject for many years. In that context, whether and how the European Union should become a party to the European Convention on Human Rights has been also hotly discussed.

In 2013, following a complex period of negotiations, a Draft Accessio