key debates in the EU foreign policy literature. Partly this stems from the ‘low politics’ nature of development … cooperation, when set against the ‘high politics’ of EU external relations as typified by CFSP/CSDP and trade. This article … combines a legal analysis of the EP’s post-Lisbon powers in EU development cooperation with an examination of the Multiannual …

The role of national parliaments in the EU has been at the centre of a long debate. Since the Maastricht treaty, new … powers to the EU level have been accompanied not only by an increasing role of the European Parliament (EP) in the … information and documents required to effectively monitor their governments in EU affairs. The Lisbon Treaty extended the …