A centralidade do cargo de Alto Representante da União Europeia para os Negócios Estrangeiros e Política de Segurança na construção europeia

Abstract

This thesis attempts to show the centrality which the role of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, established on December 1st 2009 by the Treaty of Lisbon, holds in European development. Centrality which, accordingly, enables it to have a say in the European Union, unparalleled up to now, by any other role. This thesis, therefore, aims to demonstrate that this role is placed at the centre of European development in so far as its central positioning assumes an overall importance in the whole structure of the European Union, both in external and internal action. In addition, this thesis endeavours to highlight that this role also places itself as the main pillar of a new and effective impulse in further European political integration, since it is postulated as the first and only guarantee of closeness between both supranational and intergovernmental logic.

Date of Award	20 Feb 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Eduardo Lopes Rodrigues (Supervisor)