The European Parliament and the European
Union Security and Defence Policy
Robert M. Cutler
Alexander von Lingen
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Abstract:
Acquisition of co-decisional authority in
home and foreign affairs
was a significant turning point in the institutional history of the
European Parliament (EP). The EP has become, as a result, the
driver behind the EU’s institutional development and
adaptation to
its changing international environment. The increasing confluence
of CFSP/ESDP issue areas with the issue areas of EU enlargement
illustrates the significance of the EP’s participation. The
relevant
deliberations of the Convention on the Future of Europe also
reflect this development. The EP is, through its Members, the EU
organ closest to the blurry frontier between the (EU)
‘system’ and
its (international) ‘environment’. |
Contents:
- The EU and the EP in Comparative
International
Perspective
- The European
Parliament and the CFSP
- Elaboration of
the European Security and Defence
Policy
- Post-Amsterdam through the Year 2000
- The Nice Treaty, Enlargement and the
Draft
Constitution
- Implementation and
Effectiveness
- CFSP/ESDP in
Action
- The EP and the Future of
the CFSP/ESDP
- Conclusion and Prospect
- The EP’s Historical
Significance
- The
Thessaloniki European Council, the Draft Constitution and
Beyond
- Notes
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The European Parliament and the European
Union Security and Defence Policy
This article treats the evolution of the
participation of the European
Parliament (EP) in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and
prospects for its participation in the European Security and Defence
Policy
(ESDP).[1] It begins with a
review of the EP’s
history from the perspective of comparison with other
international parliamentary institutions (IPIs), and its
increasing role in EC/EU affairs, including foreign affairs.
The second part of the article treats the EP’s place
and role in the formation and execution of the CFSP, while
the third part follows with an analogous treatment of its
place and role in the ESDP. The fourth part reviews the
CFSP/ESDP in action and its future, particularly from the
perspective of the EP’s implication in it. The
conclusion offers a few remarks about the EP in historical
perspective, and also about its future, insofar as the
Convention on the Future of Europe and provisional draft
Constitution produced by the latter are concerned.
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[Note
1]. This article is based on a paper originally presented to the
Workshop on Identity and
Representation in an Integrated Europe, organized by The Centre for
European Studies with The
Centre for Representation and Elections, Carleton University, and
held in Ottawa, 9–10 May
2002. The authors thank Professor Nanette Neuwahl for motivating
this revision of the original
paper. The present text was finalized on 30 June 2003.
Dr. Robert M. Cutler [ website — email ] was educated at MIT and The University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science, and has specialized and consulted in the international affairs of Europe, Russia, and Eurasia since the late 1970s. He has held research and teaching positions at major universities in the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, and Russia, and contributed to leading policy reviews and academic journals as well as the print and electronic mass media in three languages.
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