Resumen de Principled silence or mere silence on principles? the role of the EU charter's principles in the case law of the court of justice

Jasper Krommendijk

• Historical background of the inclusion of social rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights - Distinction between rights and principles - Similarities between the conditions for direct effect and the criteria for distinguishing between Charter rights and principles - Implications of this distinction for the possibilities of judicial review - Reluctance of the ECJ to explicitly deal with the distinction until Glatzel, as illustrated by its earlier judgments in Dominguez and AMS