What is it about?
This chapter explores how the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is emerging as a legal actor before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), analysing procedural roles as intervener, applicant, and defendant.
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Why is it important?
The chapter highlights a shift in EU institutional dynamics, showing how the High Representative can assert legal agency in the CJEU to protect and advance foreign policy prerogatives, and bring about greater institutional balance in EU external relations amidst the formal EU institutions.
Perspectives
The chapter suggests future procedural opportunities for the High Representative, including broader intervention rights and potential litigation roles.
Professor Graham Butler
Linneuniversitet
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This page is a summary of: The High Representative as New Actor before the Court of Justice of the European Union, June 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004700635_004.
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