The book offers the first single-author analysis of the practice of the EU and the Member States making international agreements jointly as so-called mixed agreements post-Lisbon, providing perspectives from international, EU, and national constitutional law. In assessing mixity in the context of the EU’s trade and investment policy, the book brings together two highly current themes in EU external relations law. The author argues that in the field of trade and investment, mixity is no longer a procedural technique to overcome legal uncertainties about competence allocations between the EU and the Member States. Instead, mixity has become a deliberate substantive design choice. In view of recent practice and current challenges, such as the non-ratification of mixed agreements, ensuring parliamentary participation in EU treatymaking, the new architecture for making trade and investment agreements, or the new trade relations of the EU and the UK post-Brexit, the author suggests that in the field of trade and investment, it is time to move beyond mixity.
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