Exploring the Fundament of a New Agent in the Field of Rights Protection: The F(undamental) R(ights) A(gency) in Vienna

European Yearbook of Minority Issues

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 597-625

  Toggenburg, Gabriel N ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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EID: 84982233124     PISSN: 15707865     EISSN: 22116117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22116117-90001651     Document Type: Review

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1. Philip Alston (ed.), The EU and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999)
2. Gabriel N. Toggenburg (ed.), Minority Protection and the Enlarged European Union: The Way Forward (LGI Books, Budapest, 2004)
3. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "Der Menschenrechts- und Minderheitenschutz in der Europaischen Union", in Werner Weidenfeld (ed.), Die Europaische Union. Politisches System und Politikbereiche, 5th ed. (Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung, Bonn, 2008), 294-313.
4. Csaba Tabajdi (ed), Pro Minoritate Europae - Minorities of Europe Unite (study book for the 25th anniversary of the Minorities-Intergroup of the European Parliament, 2006), 162-205.
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6. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "La crisi austriaca: delicati equilibrismi sospesi tra molte dimensioni", 2 Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo (2001), 735-756.
7. Matthew Heim, "Towards a European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice? The Conceptual Limits of the FRA", 14 Challenge Europe (2005), at .
8. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Satellite or Guiding Star?", 5 SWP Comments (2007), online at .
9. Valentin Aichele, Nationale Menschenrechtsinstitutionen: Ein Beitrag zur nationalen Implementierung der Menschenrechte (Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2003), 101, 110, 203.
10. Philip Alston and Olivier de Schutter (eds.), Monitoring Fundamental Rights-The Contribution of the Fundamental Rights Agency (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)
11. Armin von Bogdandy and Jochen von Bernstorff, "The EU Fundamental Rights Agency within the European and international human rights architecture: The legal framework and some unsettled issues in a new field of administrative law", Common Market Law Review 2009 (forthcoming)
12. Ines Hartel, "Die Europaische Grundrechteagentur: unnotige Burokratie oder gesteigerter Grundrechtsschutz? ", 4 Europarecht (2008), 489-513
13. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "Die ersten Schritte der EU-Grundrechteagentur in Wien", 11 Jahrbuch fur Menschenrechte 2009 (2008), 274-286
14. Hannes Tretter, "Die Grundrechteagentur der Europaischen Union: Feigenblatt oder Aufbruchssignal? ", 10 Jahrbuch fur Menschenrechte 2008 (2007), 257-264
15. Lucia Scaff ardi, "L'incerto mandato dell'Agenzia europea per i diritti fondamentali", 1 Quaderni Costituzionali (2008), 156-159
16. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "Die Grundrechteagentur der Europaischen Union: Perspektiven, Aufgaben, Strukturen und Umfeld einer neuen Einrichtung im Europaischen Menschenrechtsraum", 1 Menschen- Rechts Magazin (2007), 86-104
17. Gregor Schusterschitz, "Raum der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und des Rechts", in Gregor Woschnagg (ed.), Hinter den Kulissen der EU-Osterreichs EUVorsitz und die Zukunft Europas (Styria, Graz, 2007), 251-262
18. Marco Pacini, "L'agenzia dell'UE per i diritti fondamentali", 7 Giornale di diritto aministrativo (2007), 693-701
19. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Satellite or Guiding Star? Raison d' etre, Tasks and Challenges of the EU's New Agency, SWP Comments 2007/C05, at
20. Waldemar Hummer, "The European Fundamental Rights Agency", in August Reinisch and Ursula Kriebaum (eds.), The Law of International Relations-Liber Amicorum Hanspeter Neuhold (Eleven International Publishing, Utrecht, 2007), 117-144
21. Erica Howard, "The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights", 4 European Human Rights Law Review (2006), 445-455
22. Jan Muck Schlichting and Jorg Pietsch, "Die Europaische Grundrechteagentur", 19 Europaische Zeitschrift fur Wirtschaftsrecht (2005), 587-589
23. Ursula Werther-Pietsch, "Der lange Weg zu einer Europaischen Menschenrechtsagentur", 1 Juridikum (2005), 10-15
24. Michael Beis, "Establishment of a European Agency on Fundamental Rights: Opportunities and Challenges", eumap, at .
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26. Olivier de Schutter, Fundamental Rights and the Transformation of Governance in the European Union, Working Paper REFGOV-FR-13, at .
27. Universal Human Rights Index at .
28. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "A Remaining Share or a New Part? The EU's Role vis-a-vis Minorities after the Enlargement Decade", in Marc Weller, Denika Blacklock and Katherine Nobbs (eds), The Protec tion of Minorities in the Wider Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008), 95-127, at 112-116.
29. ECJ, case C-65/93, European Parliament v. Council, judgement of 30 March 1995, para. 23.
30. CFI, case T-13/99, Pfizer Animal Health SA, judgement of 11 November 2002, para. 199.
31. Wolfgang Heyde, "EU-Netzwerk unabhangiger Grundrechtsexperten", 2 Menschen Rechts- Magazin (2006), 238-241.
32. Olivier de Schutter and Valerie Van Goethem, The Monitoring of Fundamental Rights in the Union as a Contribution to the European Legal Space (I): The Added Value of a Systematic and Regular Monitoring of the situation of fundamental rights in the Member States for the evaluation of the implementation of Union laws and policies, Working Paper REFGOV-FR-5, 6, at .
33. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "The Race Directive: A New Dimension in the Fight against Ethnic Discrimination in Europe", 1 EYMI (2001/02), 231-244.
34. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "The European Union vis-a-vis Minorities: A Play in Three Parts and an Open End", in Csaba Tabajdi (ed), Pro Minoritate Europae-Minorities of Europe Unite, 2009 (study book for the 25th anniversary of the Minorities-Intergroup of the European Parliament), 162-205.
35. for instance the Report on Racism and Xenophobia in the Member States of the EU, which builds on data of 2005 and 2006 (2007, available at the agency's website).
36. for instance the report Trends and Development 2997-2005: Combating Ethnic and Racial Discrimination and Promoting Equality in the European Union (2007, available at the agency's website).
37. Policing Racist Crime and Violence (2005)
38. Racist Violence in 15 EU Member States (2005).
39. Racism, Football and the Internet (2002)
40. the report Majorities' Attitudes towards Migrants and Minorities: Key findings from the Eurobarometer and the European Social Survey (2005, available at the agency's website).
41. the Comparative Report: Migrants, Minorities and Education (2001, available at the agency's website).
42. the report Racism, Xenophobia and the Media: Towards respect and understanding of all religions and cultures (2006, available at the agency's website)
43. Racism and Cultural Diversity in the Mass Media (2002, available at the agency's website).
44. the reports Muslim in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia (2006)
45. The impact of 7 July 2005 London bomb attacks on Muslim Communities in the EU (2005)
46. Reports on Anti-Islamic reactions within the European Union after the acts of terror against the USA (2002)
47. report Manifestations of Antisemtism in the EU 2002-2003 (2004)
48. The fight against Antisemtism and Islamophobia: Bringing Communities together (European Round Tables Meetings) (2003).
49. the reports Roma and Travellers in Public Education (2006)
50. Breaking the Barriers- Romani Women and Access to Public Health Care (2003)
51. Gabriel N. Toggenburg, "Who is managing ethnic and cultural diversity within the European Condominium? The moments of entry, integration and preservation", 4 JCMS (2005), 717-737.