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The European Charter of Fundamental Rights formalises the founding values of the European project and is one of the pillars of the new treaty. Tony Blair fought its inclusion in the Treaty of Lisbon, and eventually managed to secure an exemption for the UK.

Here is the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, signed in Strasbourg on December 16th, 2007. Explanations here.

The UK and Polish exemption is this protocol.

In my Italian version I seem to have confused a protocol reference to article 6(2) of the Treaty of European Union with the UK/ Polish issue. I will correct this.

My concern while translating was exactly what kind of exemption was sought and won by Poland and the UK. I settled for an exemption from being pursued in European Court, ie jurisdictional. Feedback urged here.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 06:25:34 PM EST
We might consider to rephrase it: "managed to make it not legally binding for the UK", but I'm not sure it's necessary.

"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
by Melanchthon on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 07:19:23 PM EST
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