Foreign policy and the European Parliament

One of the lines of research developed by the Observatory has focused on the role of the European Parliament in foreign policy. The successive reforms of the European treaties have modified the relevance of the Parliament in foreign policy. The following articles discuss various aspects of the issue:

• Herranz Surrallés, Anna (2014) Parliamentary Oversight of EU Foreign and Security Policy: Moving Beyond the Patchwork?, ISPI Analysis, n.230, Milan: Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, 1-10.
• Herranz Surrallés, Anna (2011) The contested “Parliamentarisation” of EU Foreign and Security Policy. The role of the European Parliament following the introduction of the Treaty of Lisbon, PRIF-Report, n.104.
• Barbé, Esther and Herranz-Surrallés, Anna (2008) The power and practice of the European Parliament in Security Policies, in: Dirk Peters, Wolfgang Wagner and Nicole Deitelhoff (eds) The parliamentary control of European Security Policy, Arena Report n.7, 77-107.
• Barbé, Esther and Herranz-Surrallés, Anna (2007) Política Exterior y Parlamento Europeo, Office of the European Parliament in Barcelona.
• Barbé, Esther and Herranz-Surrallés, Anna (2005) The Role of Parliaments in European foreign policy, Office of the European Parliament in Barcelona.