The following is the first of a two-part position in which the author tries to take stock of the relative success and the deficiencies of the Agreement for Cooperation Cooperation The 2014-2020 period that originally expected to execute beef
The postponement of the 16th edition of the European Championship due to COVID-19 has deprived the EU-UFA Agreement for Cooperation (AFC) of the Song Jewel that the Eurocup 2020-Across 12 different countries, would have offered. It turns out that the European championships have put themselves in the back burner that leaves the AFC, due to the period on December 31, 2020 as an indifferent proposal. Since the agreement has spread inadvertently the leg at 2021 to overlap with the euros, it is important to take stock of to what extent this association, despite the postponement of Euro 2020, has been a success.
A good criterion to measure this success is to observe to what extent the agreement achieved its objectives. At first, it should be said that the 2014 package consists of many random objectives stuck without any real concrete commitment. On the other hand, the 2018 agreement is much more granular with a single approach to promotion, norms and values common to Europe, especially within the context of the 2020 Eurocup, which marks a change in tone and substance. With the euros canceled at least for another year, I concentrate only in the Panpley of the objectives identified in 2014 that fall widely below 3 main pillars: the social, economic and organizational dimensions of the sport, whose success [or lack thereof] It will be analyzed.
The first entries regarding AFC has bone through the promotion of physical activity whose flagship event has been the leg. European Sports Week Whe has instrumentalized football to promote transverse goals Like a healthy physicist. This has seen that football is taken into account as a first line of defense to improve the background ailments and the effects of social security costs that come with a sedentary lifestyle. The commission also mentions that the agreement has been “productive and useful” (literally) in the promotion of women’s participation in sport, as well as to help combat discrimination. However, the jury still remains in the letter since much of the initial hard work seems to have been undone with Incidents of racism within European football Again in ancestry.
This speaks of broader discomfort not only within football, but also at the EU level since the commission has a silence in silence in all this, which obfusca the operational overlays of the objectives as axis A adequate punitive action in UEFA With the lack of an adequate voice of the commission, which should not be the case. In many ways, this lack of leadership by the Commission is largely in line with the text of the agreement that lacks any concrete commission by the Commission. Up to this point, a debate for the elaboration of beer among the academics of the EU sports law is that the agreement has allowed the EU to abdicate its role of defending general European interests; that in general revolves around non -discrimination as improved in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights that prohibit discrimination based on the motives of careers, color or ethnic origin, etc.although it does not attract it. Therefore, the commission does everything possible to clarify that the agreement ‘Does not create rights or brigations under international, EU or national law‘ (Article 5.4); However, knowing very well that the agreement was adopted through a decisionTheoretically, an exclusive political status for UEFA is binding in its entirety (article 288) and cons.
The AFC also allowed the commission to implement a series of initiatives at the UEFA level that had a positive drip effect on national associations, although with a variable degree per country, also reaching the associations of visible open effects. However, given that the effect of some of the measures that are made under the agreement extend beyond the EU, since the UEFA membership is broader than the EU, which contributes to the promotion of European values and principles on a broader scale; It is still evident that the agreement has failed to take advantage of this potential, since it can still be done more. EU to complement their external relations in the associations of UEFA members in more institutional terms together with their sport -oriented dispositions that appear, for example, in their action plans with the EP countries. A case in question is the EU-ISRAEL Action Plan Mentioning the desire to improve the operation of CO in the fist of youth and sport which can help foster interaction between young people and help prevent radicalization. Therefore, the agreement could have sailed beyond these contours of the Soft legal instruments of the EU to the most easily positioned UEFA and the role of commissions within these provisions oriented to sport.
Having been undermined by the pandemic of the coronavirus, tThe postponement of the 2020 Eurocup has left the agreement without a ‘proverbial cherry on the cake’. While a complete evaluation is not possible until the end of 2021, the first signs indicate that much of the action open to scrutiny has been an algae for the social dimension to a greater extent.
Sociology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
European Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Europe, Warsaw, Poland
