The master thesis relates to the relations of the two very burdensome international courts - the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. Both courts operate under two different systems, which have a common point, the protection of human rights. Although the original objectives of the EU were mostly economic, later the need for action beyond the originally set goals appeared. The Court of Justice of the EU has enormously contributed to the protection of human rights within the European Union through its judicial activism, while the Council of Europe and its most important institution the Court of Human Rights have been aiming at protection of human rights from the very beginning. Although the current human rights regulation is satisfactory, its biggest disadvantage is that it is not systematically regulated, which means that the same rights can be regulated differently in different sources and consequently controlled by the organs of different organizations. With the aim of harmonizing human rights regulation, the European Union has begun to think about accession to the European Convention on Human Rights a few decades ago. Despite the explicit commitment to accession, the realization of the latter has not yet taken place. At the end of 2014, the European Court of Justice rejected the long-awaited and broadly approved draft of Accession Agreement. By many unexpected decision of the Court has triggered a wave of negative thoughts and speculations about how the trend of coherent action and leniency between the courts will develop in the future. In my master thesis titled Relations between the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights I discuss the development of human rights in the European Union, the relations between the courts themselves and the harmonization of the protection of human rights in the European area.
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