Publication

This report reviews the first year and a half of the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. It does so in order to assess the significance of the perceived changes in the Parliament’s role in the area of foreign and security policy, and more broadly, to reflect on the dynamics of parliamentarization in this policy domain. On the other hand, however, the report also conveys that the EP’s involvement in foreign and security policy is still a much contested development and that the sui generis way in which it is evolving opens up new challenges for the democratic quality of the EU's external relations.