10.15166/2499-8249/32
https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/europeanforum/treading-whose-toes-europol-european-parliament
2499-8249
Fahey, Elaine
Elaine
Fahey
City University London
Treading on Whose Toes? Europol, the European Parliament and the Limits of Parliamentary Control and Accountability
European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
2016
institutional balance
foreign affairs
European Parliament
CJEU
Europol
2016-04-16
Research Centre for European Law, Unitelma Sapienza - University of Rome
eng
European Forum Insight
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European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 339-341
European Forum Highlight of 16 April 2016
The decision in Case C-363/14, European Parliament v. Council concerns the eternally awkward intersection between EU international relations law and constitutional and administrative procedures, not least in the post-Lisbon framework. It is a striking decision on one level, where the EP once again post-Lisbon increasingly litigates to defend its prerogatives within inter-institutional balance as the new post-Lisbon framework of EU law, this time in response to the evolution of Europol. The post-Lisbon institutional balance era contains many examples of external action but also institutional balance being 'enlarged' through weakly reasoned CJEU decisions. And they raise the question then, what is a victory in this context?