Hoffmeister, Frank;
(2017)
Of Presidents, High Representatives and European Commissioners – the external representation of the European Union seven years after Lisbon.
Europe and the World: A Law Review
, 1
(1)
pp. 1-46.
10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2017.02.
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Abstract
The article reviews the external representation of the European Union. Hoffmeister first analyses the rules established by the Lisbon Treaty (2007). He emphasizes the division between the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and non-CFSP and the importance of the diplomatic level. Moreover, he interprets recent case law in which the European Court of Justice has given guidance to the Council and the Commission about their respective roles in policy-making and representation. The author then provides extensive case studies on Iran, Ukraine, trade negotiations and environmental negotiations to track down relevant practice of the last seven years. He concludes that Europe continues to operate a multi-layered system of external representation, where supra-national elements with a strong role of the Commission in important areas are combined with inter-governmental traits of a principal–agent relationship between the Council and its President or the High Representative.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Of Presidents, High Representatives and European Commissioners – the external representation of the European Union seven years after Lisbon |
| Open access status: | An open access publication |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2017.02 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2017.02 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017, Frank Hoffmeister • This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1559540 |
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