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    Evading the burden of proof in European Union soft law instruments: The case of Commission recommendations

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    Autori
    Andone C., Greco S.
    Tipo
    Articolo pubblicato in rivista scientifica
    Anno
    2018
    Lingua
    Inglese
    Abstract
    The European Union is making increased efforts to find simpler and more effective ways to function adequately in the eyes of its citizens by using ‘soft law’ instruments such as recommendations. Although they have no legally binding force, recommendations have practical and legal effects occurring partly due to their normative content in which a course of action is prescribed and further supported by arguments intended to persuade the addressees of a political position. Although recommendations function as persuasive instruments due to their argumentation, the characteristics of argumentation and how it is employed to convince the addressee to comply with certain measures have not been investigated at all. The main goal of the paper is to explain how arguments are used by the European Commission when recommending Member States to follow a new course of action. First, we will unravel the justificatory reasons employed by the Commission in order to make Member States comply with new measures and we will show how these reasons are combined into an argumentative pattern (van Eemeren in Argumentation 30(1): 1–23, 2016; J Argum Context 6(1): 3–26, 2017). This pattern basically prescribes a course of action to Member States, which is further supported by arguments in which the necessity and advantages of following the proposed course of action are justified. Second, we will explain how and why the way in which the arguments are combined in this complex pattern could be potentially persuasive for the Member States despite the legally non-binding character of recommendations. We will show that the European Commission tries to persuade the Member States to take new measures by evading the burden of proof imposed by the legislative framework. At a more specific level of analysis, we will delve into the implicit premises in the argumentation, which enable us to identify cases of evasion of the burden of proof due to the Commission’s use of implicit starting points which might not be accepted by the Member States.
    Rivista
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
    Volume
    31
    Numero
    1
    Mese
    marzo
    Pagina inizio
    79
    Pagina fine
    99
    DOI
    10.1007/s11196-017-9527-8
    Parole chiave
    argumentation; public communication; European Union; burden of proof; argumentative pattern;

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    Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione

    Unità organizzative

    Istituto di argomentazione, linguistica e semiotica (IALS)

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