SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION SEVENTY YEARS AFTER THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

The year 2018 was a year of important political and historical anniversaries. Among those, it certainly stands out the seventieth year from the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948 in Paris, voted by 48 members out of 58. Since it became, in the last part of the 20 th centuru foundation on wich the international human rights law was built, today, among other things, it must confront itself with an economic globalization (unthinkable just seventy years ago),ever-increasing sensitivity towards markets efficientism at the expense of fundamental rights safeguard, did not seem to contribute with an equivalent globalization of civil, economic, political and social rights, as expressed by the Declaration's Articles 1 and 2.This study will try to inquire whether the judicial activity of the Court of Justice in Luxembourg and the European Court of Human Rights can offer a different interpretive key, by restoring the principle that it falls within the States’ indispensable tasks to help ensure that the life of every human person does mirror, every day and in every respect, the universal image of a human dignity.