TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Weiss, Wolfgang
T1  - The EU's strategic autonomy in times of politicisation of international trade: The future of commission accountability
JF  - Global Policy. Special Issue: EU Trade Policy - Challenges to its Strategic Autonomy
N2  - Trade relations face unprecedented challenges, which has led to an increased politicisation and contestation of trade rules. In response, the EU has changed its trade policy under the motto ‘Open Strategic Autonomy’ towards a more as-sertive policy. The EU seeks to signifi-cantly expand its room of manoeuvre and to gain more autonomy by strengthening the en-forcement of its trade rights and by ensuring more effectively, including unilaterally, a level playing field. This re-orientation  engenders  several  new  or  amended  trade  policy  instru-ments,  but  meets with reservations as the renewed politicisation of EU trade policy will have internal consequences and raise demands for more democratic accountability of the Euro-pean Commission. The new policy instruments will enlarge its leeway in trade policy. The future of the EU's multilateral, rule-  instead of power-oriented political  stance  becomes  unclear,  which  might  undermine  its  negotiation  posi-tion in WTO reform and collide with the EU's respect for international law. The tensions  of  the  EU's  new  hybrid  approach  with  its  international  commitments  even  more  fuel  demands  for  increased  accountability  of  the  Commission  as  a  safeguard against employing the new powers for protectionism and disrespect to international law. The contribution analyses the need for increased Commis-sion accountability in the redirected trade policy.
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.13147
SN  - 1758-5880 (print); 1758-5899 (online)
SS  - 1758-5880 (print); 1758-5899 (online)
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13147
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13147
VL  - 14
IS  - S3
SP  - 54
EP  - 64
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -