Tampere Programme 20 Years on: Putting EU Principles and Individuals First

• Author: Sergio Carrera
• Profession: Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Programme at CEPS
• Pages: 51-64

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5. TAMPERE PROGRAMME

20 YEARS ON: PUTTING EU

PRINCIPLES AND INDIVIDUALS

FIRST

Sergio Carrera1

Respecting the ‘rules of the club’ and playing one’s proper par t in sol-

idarity with fellow Europeans cannot be based on a penny-pinching

cost-benet analysis along the lines (familiar, alas, from Brexi-

teer rhetoric) of ‘what precisely does the EU cost me per week and

what exactly do I personally get out of it?’ Such self-centredness is

a betrayal of the founding fathers’ vision for a peaceful and pros-

perous continent. It is the antithesis of being a loyal Member State

and being worthy, as an individual, of shared European citizenship.

If the European project is to prosper and go forward, we must all do

better than that.

Advocate General Sharpston Opinion, October 20192

1 is Chapter is based on S. Carrera (2020), 20 Years Anniversary of the

Tampere Programme: Secur itization, Intergovernmentalism and Infor-

malisation, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, forth-

coming.

2 Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston in Cases C-715/17 Commission

v. Po land , C-718/17 Commission v. Hungary and C-719/17 Commission v.

Czech Republic, EU:C:2019:917.

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