In his book, Fabbrini analyses the EU’s response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, particularly focusing on how the EU (a peacetime organisation) has adapted to the challenges posed by war. From a legal perspective, it examines EU action across five policy areas:
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
- Fiscal and Economic Policy
- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ)
- Energy and Industrial Policy
- EU Enlargement and Reform
The author argues that the EU’s constitutional framework proved flexible enough to enable unprecedented institutional responses to the conflict. However, the book also addresses how structural shortcomings in the EU’s constitution have, in some cases, hampered the EU’s response, while in others, they have occasionally failed to sufficiently constrain EU action.
The book concludes by exploring potential reforms to the EU’s constitutional set-up, emphasising the need for improvement in a time of ever-greater geopolitical risks.
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Federico Fabbrini is Full Professor of European Law at the School of Law & Government of DCU, the Founding Director of the Brexit Institute and of the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI). He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute and previously held academic positions in the Netherlands and Denmark. He has been a Fellow in Law & Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute.