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that the EU join as a member of the Council of Europe now that it has attained a single legal personality in the Lisbon Treaty.[4][5][6] However, a few months later, the ECJ declared (Opinion 2/13) the draft agreement to be incompatible with Article 6(2) of the Treaty of European Union,[7] thus bringing the accession process to a halt.[7] ECJ gives the European Convention on Human Rights "special significance" as a "guiding principle" in its case law."[11] As seen in Article 6(2) of the Maastricht Treaty, quoted above, the European Union is bound to respect fundamental rights principles.[citation needed] After this deadlock, some Italian senators have put forward a new proposal,[14] based on the partial merger of the two Courts.
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