Austria Stresses Importance of Agency for Fundamental Rights

Politics ♦ Published: July 17, 2013; 12:46 ♦ (Vindobona)

"EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna plays a central role in the monitoring of fundamental rights."

Austria Stresses Importance of Agency for Fundamental Rights / Picture: © Vindobona.org

“We are in favour of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights putting more emphasis on the preservation of rule of law in the EU member states in future. Rule of law starts at home. If the EU wants to have credibility as a global defender of the rule of law, we will have to give priority to this issue also within the Union. Rule of law is a fundamental principle of Austria's foreign…