Human-security and its Multi-faceted Meaning under European Union Law. An Attempt for an Intersectoral Legal Approach

In the post-Maastricht and post-9/11 scenario, the High representative for foreign affairs and security policy of the European Union (EU), Javier Solana, provided an attempt for a first conceptualisation on how the aim of ‘human-security’ could be introduced in the EU institutional framework, for the achievement of the main security purposes made urgent by the new challenges arisen in the international arena. Given the main peculiarities of the EU institutional and legal system, the paper further submits other areas of EU law where the same aim – human-security – might gain further relevance, though considering the different stages of development, beside the different kinds of EU competences, in each of same suggested areas.