TY - JOUR
T1 - The future of EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
T2 - Assessing legal options for improvement
AU - Wessel, Ramses A.
AU - Anttila, Elias
AU - Obenheimer, Helena
AU - Ursu, Alexandru
N1 - Funding Information:
R.A. Wessel is Professor of European Law and Head of the Department of European and Economic Law at the University of Groningen (corresponding author email: [email protected] ); the other authors are junior researchers at the Department of European and Economic Law. This study was supported by grant no. 962533 from the EU‐funded project ENGAGE ( https://www.engage-eu.eu/ ) under the umbrella of the European Commissions Horizon 2020 framework program.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. European Law Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/2/1
Y1 - 2022/2/1
N2 - The EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy found its way into the Treaty 30 years ago, but it is still confronted with ‘specific rules and procedures’ that seem to stand in the way of its effectiveness. Against the background of the Conference on the Future of Europe, this contribution aims to identify ways to improve the CFSP's functionality, on the basis of both existing scholarly work and an empirical assessment of the last 10 years of the Union's foreign policy. By focusing on legal rather than political solutions, it aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the effectiveness of CFSP. Making use of the gradually accepted “normalisation” of CFSP, we have identified a number of legal tools that could be used to improve CFSP and to allow it to meet its Treaty brief to ‘cover all areas of foreign policy and all questions relating to the Union's security’.
AB - The EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy found its way into the Treaty 30 years ago, but it is still confronted with ‘specific rules and procedures’ that seem to stand in the way of its effectiveness. Against the background of the Conference on the Future of Europe, this contribution aims to identify ways to improve the CFSP's functionality, on the basis of both existing scholarly work and an empirical assessment of the last 10 years of the Union's foreign policy. By focusing on legal rather than political solutions, it aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the effectiveness of CFSP. Making use of the gradually accepted “normalisation” of CFSP, we have identified a number of legal tools that could be used to improve CFSP and to allow it to meet its Treaty brief to ‘cover all areas of foreign policy and all questions relating to the Union's security’.
U2 - 10.1111/eulj.12405
DO - 10.1111/eulj.12405
M3 - Article
SN - 1351-5993
VL - 26
SP - 371
EP - 390
JO - European Law Journal
JF - European Law Journal
IS - 5-6
ER -