Human Rights as Cornerstones of Democracy
Journal: European Union and its neighbours in a globalized world
Year: 2025

Abstract Essential democratic standards as well as supplementary democratic guarantees are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the human rights treaties at global and regional levels with regard to national governmental systems. These standards and guarantees are enforceable in international judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings as well as politically, most effectively (but not without gaps) in Europe. But no general right to national democracy has yet been recogn