Systemic v administrative mutual trust: Recomposing the disconnection between mutual trust and fundamental rights protection
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the relationship between mutual trust and fundamental rights. It argues that mutual trust is a systemic principle of EU law only when activated by the free movement provisions, and even in that case it is relative in that it can be limited by fundamental rights. However, when there is no free movement, mutual trust needs to be activated by secondary legislation, and it is an administrative principle which requires mutual recognition only if that is provided in secondary legislation. The article then seeks to apply this categorization to the case law on the European Arrest Warrant and instruments adopted within the Common European Asylum System.
Author: Eleanor Spaventa*
Institution: Bocconi University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4411686189