The fate of security cooperation in the future depends upon the development of old and new trans-border threats that may trigger intensified cooperation, and on the wish to maintain sovereignty.
An effort should be made to find a balance between measures which have to be adopted at a central or coordinated level and measures which need to remain in the hands of governments.
The principle of subsidiarity in EU environmental law suggests a distinction between actions aiming for genuine environmental protection and actions aiming primarily at market integration.
Subsidiarity may be a strong argument in the political debate on draft legislative proposals as it is unlikely that new asylum legislation will contain any disproportionate or unreasonable demands.
The cases of Libya, Iraq and Syria show the consequences of traditional power politics in Europe have closely aligned with US foreign policy and embedded in transatlantic networks.
A revised Anti-Trafficking Directive must come to terms with the demand and supply side of a criminal transaction by changing the wider environment that facilitates trafficking in human beings.
Through policy adaptations reflected in buzzwords, such as transparency and accountability, financial democratisation and funding access, the EU has mounted an effective response to economic crises.
it is vital that the European Commission finds new imaginative solutions for a more balanced interaction between national and supranational activities in the social domain.
As a consequence of societal globalisation, there is an ongoing process similar to the ‘unbinding of politics’ in the context of EU migration and asylum policy.
Subsidiarity reminds us of the fact that law is not a hermetically sealed system cut off from society, but that it is always linked to other systems such as politics.
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