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Despite considerable academic attention on the European External Action Service (EEAS), only a few studies have touched upon its relationship with the European Parliament. This article looks into the relationship between the EEAS, its High Representative and the European Parliament. It pays particular attention to the question of whether — during the making of the EEAS — the European Parliament was able to expand its parliamentary oversight in external relations along the lines of legislative, supervisory and budgetary powers.

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This contribution proposes a framework of transnational parliamentarism to study inter-parliamentary cooperation, and applies it to the interparliamentary conference on CFSP/CSDP. It asks to what extent the IPC's functioning reflects its constitutive intergovernmental logic, or whether its behaviour in practice might be guided by a transnational logic, hence becoming something more than just the parliamentary mirror of an intergovernmental cooperation framework. To this end we outline three functions that are brought forward by transnational parliamentarism: policy-making, collective accountability and cooperation, and investigate to which extent these logics can be observed in the functioning of the IPC CFSP/CSDP. Applying the framework reveals a nuanced picture of an inter-parliamentary cooperation framework which to some extent goes beyond purely intergovernmental functions of domestic accountability and representation, and also includes the performance of policy-making and parliamentary cooperation functions.

Les parlements nationaux sont longtemps restés écartés du processus d'intégration européenne. Suite à l'entrée en vigueur du traité de Lisbonne, suite à la crise économique et monétaire et suite à l'arrivée du président Juncker, on observe une importante intensification de leurs relations avec les institutions européennes. Se pose dès lors la question de savoir si les parlements sont devenus des acteurs de la gouvernance européenne à part entière. L'analyse présentée ici montre que les relations telles qu'elles existent à présent ne permettent pas de leur donner un tel statut, même s'ils sont indubitablement plus engagés dans ce domaine qu'ils ne l'étaient auparavant.