The 2016 ‘Winter Package’ on European Security and Defence: Constitutional, Legal and Institutional Implications

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This study was commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament. It examines a series of
constitutional, legal and institutional implications of the proposals endorsed by the December 2016 European Council for the further development of the Common Security and Defence Policy in the framework of the current Treaties.

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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, December 2016: The 2016 'Winter Package' on European Security and Defence: Constitutional, Legal and Institutional Implications http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/571405/IPOL_IDA(2016)571405_EN.pdf

ESO: Background information: EU Security and Defence package http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-security-and-defence-package/

ESO: Background information: Adoption of the European Defence Action Plan http://www.europeansources.info/record/adoption-of-the-european-defence-action-plan/

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