Towards a Normative Superiority of EU Human Rights Norms? - An Analysis of the Emerging EU Human Rights Hierarchy in the Light of Kadi and Al Barakaat
The legal status of EU human rights norms is not clearly defined. The initial goals of the European Community were primarily of economic nature, and social and political rights were merely welcomed as secondary effects of the single market aim. Human rights concerns were at the end of the Second World War reserved for the Council of Europe and the founding of the European Convention on Human Right