22 Freedom, security, justice and efficiency

As underlying principles within the DCFR, these will be discussed and developed later. They also have a role to play as overriding principles for the purposes of assessment from the outside. The DCFR as a whole falls to be assessed very largely by the criterion of how well it embodies and balances these principles. At the level of overriding political principles, reference may also be made to the EU specific aims of establishing an area of freedom, security and justice and promoting the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital between the Member States. If the political will were there, the DCFR could make a contribution to the achievement of these aims.