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This chapter examines the EP’s informal empowerment in the highly politicized area of EU trade agreements. In trade policy, the Lisbon Treaty granted the EP a major new right of ratification of international agreements falling under the common commercial policy. We analyse how the EP managed to significantly widen its powers beyond the final approval of trade agreements to an informal involvement in the shaping of these agreements. As this chapter shows, the EP used the strategies of sanctioning, delaying and unilateral action in order to obtain new informal institutional powers that went further than the Lisbon Treaty.
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Héritier, A., Meissner, K.L., Moury, C., Schoeller, M.G. (2019). The European Parliament in External Agreements. In: European Parliament Ascendant. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16777-6_8
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