Die Evolution des Rats der Europäischen Union

Embedded Politics, Growing Informalization? How NATO and the EU Transform Provision of External Security

“…41 Officials of the national Permanent Representations to the EU do enjoy partial autonomy from their governments. 42 Like other national actors working and interacting in Brussels' strongly institutionalized environment, they contribute to transcending the nation-state, but domestic factors -in a sense of pre-socialization -seem to facilitate the adoption of supranational role conceptions as well. 43 There is also some cross-border interaction among sub-national actors within the CSDP, although Mérand and his colleagues advise us not to overestimate this transgovernmental activity.…”