Member States as ‘Trustees’ of the Union? The European Union and the Arctic Council. EU Diplomacy Paper 12 / 2017
This paper sets out to analyse two elements often overlooked in the literature on the European Union (EU) and international organisations, namely EU representation in the Arctic Council and the duty of sincere cooperation as a tool of EU representation. Since the EU is not a member of the Arctic Cou...
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ftupittaei:oai:aei.pitt.edu:92758 2023-05-15T14:23:33+02:00 Member States as ‘Trustees’ of the Union? The European Union and the Arctic Council. EU Diplomacy Paper 12 / 2017 Bjerkem, Johan 2017-12 application/pdf http://aei.pitt.edu/92758/ http://aei.pitt.edu/92758/1/edp%2D12%2D2017_bjerkem.pdf https://www.coleurope.eu/study/eu-international-relations-and-diplomacy-studies/research-activities/eu-diplomacy-papers unknown http://aei.pitt.edu/92758/1/edp%2D12%2D2017_bjerkem.pdf Bjerkem, Johan (2017) Member States as ‘Trustees’ of the Union? The European Union and the Arctic Council. EU Diplomacy Paper 12 / 2017. [Working Paper] EU-Arctic Working Paper NonPeerReviewed 2017 ftupittaei 2019-12-14T23:14:06Z This paper sets out to analyse two elements often overlooked in the literature on the European Union (EU) and international organisations, namely EU representation in the Arctic Council and the duty of sincere cooperation as a tool of EU representation. Since the EU is not a member of the Arctic Council, this paper assesses to what extent the EU is able to rely on its three member states (Denmark, Sweden and Finland), as members of the Arctic Council, to represent Union interests. After having shown the extent to which the duty of sincere cooperation has effectively been invoked by the European Court of Justice to enforce unity in representation, EU representation in the Arctic Council serves as a case study exemplifying the limits of the duty. While the duty of sincere cooperation entails general and concrete obligations on the activities of member states in international organisations, the duty remains a reactive legal tool only applicable when the EU legal order is challenged. Hence, the duty of sincere cooperation plays a minor role for international organisations dealing with matters of Common Foreign and Security Policy and with decision-making powers that do not directly affect the EU legal order. For the Arctic Council, this paper therefore concludes that the EU has only to a limited extent been able to rely on its member states as ‘trustees’ of the Union. Report Arctic Arctic Council Arctic University of Pittsburgh: Archive of European Integration (AEI) Arctic |
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This paper sets out to analyse two elements often overlooked in the literature on the European Union (EU) and international organisations, namely EU representation in the Arctic Council and the duty of sincere cooperation as a tool of EU representation. Since the EU is not a member of the Arctic Council, this paper assesses to what extent the EU is able to rely on its three member states (Denmark, Sweden and Finland), as members of the Arctic Council, to represent Union interests. After having shown the extent to which the duty of sincere cooperation has effectively been invoked by the European Court of Justice to enforce unity in representation, EU representation in the Arctic Council serves as a case study exemplifying the limits of the duty. While the duty of sincere cooperation entails general and concrete obligations on the activities of member states in international organisations, the duty remains a reactive legal tool only applicable when the EU legal order is challenged. Hence, the duty of sincere cooperation plays a minor role for international organisations dealing with matters of Common Foreign and Security Policy and with decision-making powers that do not directly affect the EU legal order. For the Arctic Council, this paper therefore concludes that the EU has only to a limited extent been able to rely on its member states as ‘trustees’ of the Union. |
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