The Observatori researchers Robert Kissack (IBEI), Eva Michaels (U. Leiden) and Óscar Fernández (U. Maastricht) published an article titled Parliamentary acceptability of EU military deployments in member states: beyond rubber-stamping? in the Journal of European Integration.
The article examines national parliamentary debates in 13 EU member states of eight CSDP military deployments underway between 2016 and 2021. It reviews discussions about whether, and why, to send troops on EU missions and operations, and the extent to which these debates differ from expectations in the literature derived from involvement in NATO operations.