The EU as a Global Actor – Bridging Legal Theory and Practice: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Ricardo Gosalbo Bono

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

List of the Contributors

List of Publications of Ricardo Gosalbo Bono (1973–2016)

List of Cases before the CJEU in Which Ricardo Gosalbo Bono Acted as Agent Either on Behalf of the Council or of the Commission

Témoignages

Ricardo Gosalbo Bono: Some Reminiscences of a Friend and Colleague

Fantasía para un gentilhombre

Part 1: Institutional Dimensions

1 Still New Kids on the EU’s Institutional Block? The High Representative and the European External Action Service Seven Years after the Entry into Force of the Treaty of Lisbon

2 The Two-way Flexibility Clause in Article 48(2) TEU and Declaration 18 of the Intergovernmental Conference

3 The Court and the New EU Foreign Relations Law: Institutional Balance?

4 The External Relations of the European Union Since Lisbon: A Practitioner’s Perspective

5 The Role of the Council Legal Service in Ensuring Respect for the Law

Part 2: Principles of Union Law and Legal Theory

6 CJEU Jurisprudence and the Audience: Making Law in a Public Discourse – Ten Years after CJEU Case C-144/04 Mangold v Helm

7 The Principle of Solidarity in the EU Legal Order – Some Practical Examples after Lisbon

8 How Elastic is Article 263 TFEU? Some Comments from a Sore Winner

9 Aie confiance! – La confiance mutuelle peut-elle se décréter?

Part 3: International Law Aspects

10 Minding the Gap: Reflections on the Relationship between EU law and Public International Law in the Light of the Judgment in Case C-364/10 Hungary v Slovakia

11 Four Contributions of the European Union to the Law of the Sea

12 The Frente Polisario Judgments: An Assessment in the Light of the Court of Justice’s Case Law on Territorial Disputes

Part 4: Specific EU External Policies

The Common Foreign and Security Policy

13 EU Common Foreign and Security Policy and Protection of Fundamental Rights

The Common Commercial Policy

14 Of Transferred Competence, Institutional Balance and Judicial Autonomy – Constitutional Developments in EU Trade Policy Seven Years after Lisbon

Justice and Home Affairs

15 Variable Geometry, Justice and Home Affairs and the Conduct of EU External Relations

Part 5: EU International Agreements

16 Recent Case Law of the European Court of Justice Relating to Article 218 TFEU

17 Some Issues Related to the Provisional Application of International Agreements and the Institutional Balance

18 The Use of the CFSP Legal Basis for EU International Agreements in Combination with Other Legal Bases

19 EU Treaty-Making after the Lisbon Treaty – A Test Case for Mutual Sincere Cooperation?

Epilogue

20 La liberté du négociateur de l’Union – raison d’être et limites

Index