The Common Security and Defense Policy of the Eur2021opean Union

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HANDBOOK ON CSDP

5.3. RULE OF LAW AND THE CSDP

European Union/EULEX Kosovo, Enisa Kasemi

by Daphne Lodder

The rule of law is a principle of governance whereby all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the state itself, are accountable under laws that are publicly promulgated, enforced and independently adjudicated.

Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU, Lisbon, 2009) states that: ‘The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights […]. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.’ Article 3(1) TEU stipulates that: ‘The Union’s aim is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples.’, and adds to this in Article 3(5) ‘In its relations with the wider world, the Union shall uphold and promote its values […]. It shall contribute to peace, security […] (and) the protection of human rights […].’

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Article 21 TEU deals with the principles that inform EU foreign policy and extends Member States’ values on which the Union is based to its external action, where it aims equally to uphold and promote these values: ‘The Union’s action on the international scene shall be guided by the principles which have inspired its own creation, development and enlargement, and which it seeks to advance in the wider world: democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law.’ Furthermore: ‘The Union shall define and pursue


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List of Authors

14min
pages 260-265

The Security Policy Dimension (Jochen Rehrl

12min
pages 252-259

Harald Gell

3min
pages 249-251

8.1. Civilian and Military Capability Development (Klaus Schadenbauer

34min
pages 197-210

8.5. Case Study: Disinformation (Vicente Diaz de Villegas Roig

10min
pages 235-242

8.4. Case Study: Digitalisation of Defence (Daniel Fiott

23min
pages 224-234

9.2. The European Security and Defence College (Dirk Dubois

5min
pages 246-248

8.2. Case Study: Covid-19 and its Impact on the Defence Sector (Tania Latici

13min
pages 211-218

7.4. The Security and Development Nexus (Clément Boutillier

19min
pages 186-196

7.3. Internal-External Security Nexus: CSDP-JHA Cooperation (Crista Huisman

9min
pages 181-185

7.2. Training for Partnerships (Jochen Rehrl

8min
pages 177-180

6.3. The European Defence Agency (Jiří Šedivý

7min
pages 164-168

7.1. Partnerships in Security and Defence (Alison Weston and Frédéric Maduraud

16min
pages 169-176

6.2. The European Union Satellite Centre (Sorin Ducaru

6min
pages 159-163

6.1. EU Institute for Security Studies (Gustav Lindstrom

4min
pages 155-158

5.4. Strategic Framework to Support SSR (Karin Gatt Rutter and Gianmarco Scuppa

6min
pages 151-154

5.3. Rule of Law and the CSDP (Daphne Lodder

13min
pages 145-150

5.1. Gender and Women, Peace and Security in the CSDP (Taina Järvinen

6min
pages 139-141

5.2. Human Rights and the CSDP (Taina Järvinen

4min
pages 142-144

4.4. Hybrid Threat and the CSDP (John Maas

12min
pages 132-138

4.3. Cyber Security/Defence and the CSDP (Jan Peter Giesecke

11min
pages 126-131

4.2. Counter-Terrorism and the CSDP (Birgit Löser

10min
pages 121-125

Factsheet: A European Border and Coast Guard

2min
pages 119-120

3.3. Challenges for Civilian CSDP Missions (Kate Fearon and Sophie Picavet

16min
pages 93-100

4.1. Migration and CSDP (Jochen Rehrl

15min
pages 111-118

3.5. The European Peace Facility (Sebastian Puig Soler

10min
pages 104-110

3.4. The Civilian CSDP Compact (Crista Huisman and Deirdre Clarke Lyster

7min
pages 101-103

3.2. Challenges of Military Operations and Missions (Georgios Tsitsikostas

11min
pages 87-92

3.1. How to plan and launch a CSDP Mission or Operation (Fernando Moreno

11min
pages 81-86

2.6. The Single Intelligence Analysis Capacity (Jose Morgado and Radoslaw Jezewski

2min
pages 77-80

2.3. The Role of the European Parliament in the CSDP (Jérôme Legrand

18min
pages 58-65

2.2. The Role of the European Commission in the CSDP (Diego de Ojeda

7min
pages 54-57

1.4. CSDP – State of Affairs (Jochen Rehrl

10min
pages 38-44

1.2. The EU Global Strategy

11min
pages 22-26

1.1. History and Development of the CSDP (Gustav Lindstrom

10min
pages 17-21

1.3. Analysing the EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (Sven Biscop

23min
pages 30-37

2.1.2. The Council of the European Union

12min
pages 49-53

2.5. EEAS Crisis Response Mechanism (Pedro Serrano

3min
pages 74-76
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