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Comment on Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski: Constitutionalization of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union: Implications of the Constitutional Treaty

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The Unity of the European Constitution

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Abstract

Within the ongoing debate on the constitutionalization at the EU level,1 European foreign policy has gained more and more attention. This is due to the Union’s growing relevance and importance as “an actor in the international relations,”2 which has also increasingly found its expression at the normative level of the founding documents of the EU. To what extent does the Constitutional Treaty (CT) bring about improvement in the legal regime governing the EU’s external activities, thus strengthening the Union’s capabilities to, as current Article 2(1) TEU puts it, “assert its identity on the international scene”?3

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Rau, M. (2006). Comment on Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski: Constitutionalization of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union: Implications of the Constitutional Treaty. In: Dann, P., Rynkowski, M. (eds) The Unity of the European Constitution. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, vol 186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37721-4_19

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