1 Amendments of Christian EHLER related to 2022/2051(INL)
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that academic freedom, including institutional autonomy, is a fundamental value of the Union, as laid down in Article 13 of the European Charter, which has been under siege over the last decade; notes that all Member States have signed political declarations on the importance of academic freedom in Europe and the need to protect it; concludes however that the legal protection for academic freedom and institutional autonomy has failed to adequately protect this fundamental right; draws particular attention to the ECJ judgement in the case of the Central European University vs the Hungarian Government; notes that in order to protect academic freedom the Court needed to treat the university as a business and needed to rely on WTO regulations because the Charter only applies when European law is implemented; is deeply convinced that this is not sufficient protection for such an important value and that this fundamental right should be directly applicable across the Union regardless of the involvement of the European law; calls therefore urgently for the inclusion of academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the European Treaties.