Abstract EN:

The study of the relations between the European Convention on Human Rights and the Constitutional courts of the forty-four States, which have thus far ratified the ECHR, implicates two readings. Firstly, the two systems of protection must necessarily collaborate in order to ensure the maximal guarantee of fundamental rights in Europe. While generally satisfactory, this cooperation needs nevertheless to he reinforced over the coming years. Secondly, the European Court of Human Rights appears, in the last ten years, to be seeking to incorporate the national systems of protection in a threefold offensive (procedural, substantive and organic) on the office of the constitutional judge. As this latter tendency can have adverse consequences, it seems in the final analysis, judicious to seek to reconcile cooperation and integration in order to facilitate a minimum level of harmonisation of fundamental rights in Europe without denying the individual aspects and richness of national constitutional rights.