A Rights-Based Approach to Children’s Digital Participation in the Multi-Level System of the European Union

Abstract

Against predominating risk-based narratives, this chapter focusses on children’s rights to participation in transnational digital spheres, which need to be balanced with children's rights to protection. The importance of a rights-based approach in the multi-level system of the EU is shown with particular regard to the legal principle of the best interest of the child, proportionality and coherence of measures in the EU, and the interplay of EU and national legal norms.