Marchais, I. “A European Parliament keen to strengthen its role on the international stage”, Blogpost, Jacuqes Delors Institute, February 2024

As the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is essentially an intergovernmental matter, the European Parliament’s role in this area is strictly limited by the Treaties. However, it does manage to exert real influence on the international stage, through the areas in which it intervenes as co-legislator and through various players and instruments that enable it to develop its own diplomacy, which both competes with and complements executive diplomacy. As the only supranational parliament in the world, it is attracting real interest outside the EU, at the risk of becoming a prime target for foreign interference.