The role of the European Parliament in international negotiations after Lisbon
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 568-586
ISSN: 1466-4429
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In: Journal of European public policy, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 568-586
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 568-586
ISSN: 1350-1763
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 20, Heft 7, S. 972-987
ISSN: 1350-1763
In: European security, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 191-207
ISSN: 1746-1545
In: European security: ES, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 191-208
ISSN: 0966-2839
In: German politics, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 398-413
ISSN: 1743-8993
In: Theorizing Internal Security in the European Union, S. 153-176
In: German politics: Journal of the Association for the Study of German Politics, S. 1-16
ISSN: 0964-4008
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 21, Heft 8, S. 1142-1162
ISSN: 1350-1763
In: European integration online papers: EIoP ; an interdisciplinary working papers series, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 1-22
ISSN: 1027-5193
In: European foreign affairs review, Band 17, Heft Special Issue, S. 71-86
ISSN: 1875-8223
EU-US relations in internal security demonstrated a tendency to be turbulent. As a result, EU-US cooperation has not evolved into a partnership but into an asymmetrical relationship within which the EU has become a 'norm taker' - a recipient of US security norms. With this perspective in mind, it is time to take stock of the changes in the institutional configuration of the EU brought about by the Lisbon Treaty. In particular, the European Parliament (EP), often a vocal critic of the transfer of US security norms to the EU in the past, has been empowered to consent to international agreements. We therefore examine whether the EU remains a recipient of US security norms after Lisbon through the first case of its kind: the EU-US Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Agreement. By rejecting the first of the two agreements, the EP generally acted contrary to the preferences of the Council and United States, who were mostly in favour of the agreement. Despite this opposition, the EP gained few concessions from the United States and Council in the second round of negotiations for a permanent SWIFT Agreement, with their emphasis on security trumping most of the EP's data protection concerns. In sum, the use of theories on norm internalization allows us to conclude that, after Lisbon, the EP has abandoned its previous critical stances and is now becoming a new 'norm taker' within the EU-US relationship.
In: Perspectives on European politics and society: journal of intra-European dialogue, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 390-406
ISSN: 1570-5854