The Case-Law Shaping the Right of the Third-Country Nationals for the Language Assistance

Abstract

The present article deals with the provision of the language assistance for the third-country nationals set as a procedural guarantee within the European Convention on Human Rights as well as EU secondary legislation. As the right for the language assistance is defined broadly, an attempt to narrow the definition of the language assistance is made on the basis of the European Court of Human Rights Case-law. At the same time, the peculiarities related to the provision of the interpreting services across the EU Member States are brought out in order to help to solve the present situation.

Keywords

• language assistance
• procedural safeguards
• detention
• intercultural communication
• case-law
• human rights