Not in the sense that it is exclusively European, but that it is one of the core elements on what the European cooperation is build upon, and what both in legal terms, and socially is established as a common "European ethical fundament", one of the lessons of WWII.

On the charters of fundamental human rights, there has not been much room for manoeuvres by individual governments, of course the follow-up to implement, is another story.

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