The High Representative of the European External Action Service (EEAS) is held to provide a review of the organisation and functioning of the EEAS by mid-2013. This short and user-friendly legal commentary on the 2010 Council Decision establishing the organisation and functioning of the EEAS is...

Autonomy and accountability of public agencies are two sides of the same coin, yet often they are examined separately and at only one point in time. This contribution therefore examines the interaction between accountability and autonomy over time. It does so in the context of a European Union...

type="short"> <p>This agenda item belongs to a section headed: Classifying And Overseeing Secrets In The Eu, which also includes Classifying Secrets In The Eu by David Galloway (DOI: <url href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12122/abstract">10.1 111/jcms.12122</url>)

We argue in this article that Europe has in fact had a kind of executive order for centuries but that we only now see that the contours of this order are qualitatively different from the intergovernmental order inherited from the past. We ascribe this phenomenon in particular to the...