Shifting boundaries of the EU's foreign and security policy
Journal: Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Year: 2019

Europe's foreign and security policy needs to become more effective. To this end, the executive autonomy of European governments should be maximised, and legal constraints from EU law minimised - this view is only seemingly plausible. Only an EU foreign and security policy anchored in the rule of law based on the EU treaties is realistic and sustainable. The EU is under pressure to meet human rights standards on the one hand, and demands to limit migration on the other. Three trends are evident: