ABSTRACT
Human rights-duties are at the core of so-called “European values”, and these human rights are grounded in the dignity of all human beings. But what follows from the commitment to human dignity with regard to duties towards non-citizens? This chapter does not provide a substantial answer to this question. Rather, it addresses various issues that are immediately relevant to the discussion of duties Europeans may have in this context. The chapter first sets out its normative and methodological presuppositions. Then it addresses the questions of the conditions under which we have political duties towards distant human beings with dignity and whether it is possible to hierarchise these duties, as well as questions about the possibility of fulfilling these duties.
