This contribution looks into the relationship between national parliaments and the EU’s trade policy since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. The October 2016 saga of a sub-State parliament in the Belgian region of Wallonia rejecting to authorize the signature of the Comprehensive...

The Lisbon Treaty has rung in a new era of democratic and human rights governance. In an attempt to redress concerns about the EU's alleged democratic deficit and inability to speak with one voice on cross-cutting issues of human rights, both the empowered European Parliament (EP) and national...