The Duty of Mutual Trust in EU Law and the Duty to Secure Human Rights : Can the EU's Accession to the ECHR Ease the Tension?
The principle of mutual trust has been a central pillar of the European integration project, first as a tool for market integration, and as the European Economic Community became the European Union, as a mechanism for a more wide ranging integration of the legal orders of the member states. The EU now has legislation in place which imposes obligations on member states to trust each other's civil a