Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256026 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 5/2007
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
At the beginning of March, a new agency of the European Union (EU) began its work in Vienna. The European Fundamental Rights Agency (EFRA) will replace the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), which was created in 1998. In contrast to the EUMC, the new agency will be responsible for the entire area of fundamental rights. As the EU and the Council of Europe already have a considerable amount of instruments in the field of human rights protection, the necessity of an additional one in Europe is not entirely uncontroversial. The new agency does, however, have considerable potential for improving the EU's human rights policy, for creating more synergies in an 'integrated European area of human rights' and for a focused debate on issues related to 'diversity management'.(SWP Comments / SWP)
Document Type: 
Research Report

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