PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT OF CSDP MILITARY OPERATIONS – THE GERMAN CASE

Đurašinović-Radojević Dragana (Poslediplomac Fakulteta političkih nauka u Beogradu),

The Common Security and Defence Policy has become one of the most dynamic EU policies in the last ten years, while this “superpower in the making” has ambitious plans for its further development. Therefore, it is important to determine how CSDP activities have been controlled. Since the parliament plays a key role in democratic systems concerning the oversight and legitimisation of executive political decisions the author focused attention on the parliamentary dimension of CSDP, namely on the parliamentary control of military operations conducted under its auspices. The complexity of CSDP parliamentary oversight architecture lies in substantial differences in respect to the parliamentary oversight among national legislative institutions of EU member states. This text highlights some of those differences, while the German Parliament was analysed as a good practice example in this field.

Keywords: parliamentary oversight, Common Security and Defence Policy, Bundestag, armed forces