dc.contributor.author | PETITE, Michel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-12-22T13:41:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-12-22T13:41:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1725-6739 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/6426 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper is based on a lecture delivered during the Academy of European Law Summer School 2006. It
provides an examination from a legal perspective of three current themes in the external relations of the
European Union. First, the legal implications of the pillar structure for external relations, including recent
case law and practical issues arising from the application of Article 47 TEU, the borderline between
Community external policies and the Union’s common foreign and security policy, and practical interpillar
cooperation. It concludes that it is easier to combine the pillars by means of pragmatic solutions,
whereas it is much more difficult in the case of a strictly legal construction which takes into account the
requirements of Union coherence and the separate character of each pillar. Second, the paper turns to the
balance between Member States and the European Union/Community in external policy and in particular
the application of the “AETR test” in recent case law including the “Open Skies” cases, the Lugano
Convention Opinion and the “Mox Plant” case. It concludes that a proper application of the AETR
remains a practical challenge that transcends the narrow issue of pure legal deduction as to whether
Community competence is “affected” or not. And third, the paper considers the position of the EU
within, and participation in the work of, international organisations such as the United Nations, the WHO
and the WTO. The paper concludes by emphasising the need for collaboration between the institutions
and for pragmatic solutions to the problems that are inevitable while the Union retains its current
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dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | European University Institute | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI LAW | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2006/38 | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.subject | Competences | en |
dc.subject | dispute resolution | en |
dc.subject | European law | en |
dc.subject | international agreements | en |
dc.subject | legal personality | en |
dc.subject | CFSP/ESDP | en |
dc.subject | common commercial policy | en |
dc.subject | development policy | en |
dc.subject | European Court of Justice | en |
dc.title | Current Legal Issues in the External Relations of the European Union | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
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