No, The Sun, the Human Rights Act is not the EU
I was watching the England football team beat Ireland in the World Cup earlier when I was tweeted a cracking bit of legal gobbledegook from The Sun: Youngsters at risk after EU ruling. According to The Sun, Now the “EU could let fiends like him prey on your children“.
and at the end
And did you notice my error at the beginning of the post? England beat Ireland in the Rugby Six Nations, not the football World Cup. Did it jar? Don’t be so pedantic. EU, European Convention, football, rugby – what really is the difference?
There's a wonderful book by Tom Kennedy, Learning European Law - A Primer and Vade-mecum - unfortunately dated 1998 and I presume not likely to be updated. One of the topics he deals with in the introduction is the prevalence of newspaper howlers, and he has a whole page of them, including some from The Times and The Financial Times.
The European Commission lists Euromyths.
Defined tags for this entry: EU, newspapers
The ECJ in Luxembourg has also reportedly pledged, in its rulings, to be mindful and heedful of Convention rights.
It may be no surprise that EU law students in the British Isles and UK journalists are totally confused.
With the expansion of the EU to embrace Convention member-states, prospectively Turkey, Moldavia a.k.a. Moldava and the Ukraine, I wonder what the rationale is for keeping both ECJ and ECtHR institutions.
Who would decide to remove the ECtHR unless the member countries (47) were identical to EU Member States? Quite apart from the fact that being mindful of Convention rights is not the same as enforcing them (or attempting to enforce them).
Have I posted this clickable diagram before? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
Also with the ECJ non-enforcement point.
As for the removal of the ECtHT, if the EU expanded to exactly the same 47 member states as the EConHR member states, then the momentum for abolition of the EctHR, rather than of the ECJ, or at least for a rethink - perhaps for a merger with the ECJ - would be bound to build up.
Thanks for the website with clickable diagram I can't see has been posted before.