External trade and foreign policy in the European Union

  • Griller, Stefan (PI - Project head)
  • Dutzler, Barbara (Researcher)
  • Lukaschek, Anita (Researcher)
  • Vranes, Erich (Researcher)
  • Weidel, Birgit (Researcher)
  • von Lutterotti, Lukas (Researcher)

Project Details

Financing body

Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Jubiläumsfonds)

Description

By introducing the pillar construction, the TEU has codified the division of European foreign policy into two fundamentally different components that had existed since the creation of European Political Cooperation (EPC). In this dual system, mainly economic issues are subject to the supranational EC framework, whereas “political affairs” are reserved to the intergovernmental domain of the second pillar. This rigid separation of economic and political aspects enshrined in the constitutional set-up of the European Union forms the starting point of this study. The basic contention is that this delimitation is not respected as it is impracticable in political reality.
The main objectives of this projects are
>> to highlight the linkage of economic and political issues in external relations

>> to examine the implications on the distribution of competence between the EC, the EU and the Member States and on the representation of the EU and the EC in international organisations.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/02/0031/08/01

Collaborative partners

  • Vienna University of Economics and Business (lead)
  • Universität Göttingen, Abteilung für internationales und ausländisches Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht (Project partner)
  • European Commission (Project partner)
  • University of Innsbruck (Project partner)

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (OEFOS)

  • 505003 European law
  • 505025 Business law
  • 506007 International relations