This monograph offers a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth legal
account of official secrets in the European Union. It critically
analyses their implications for oversight and fundamental rights.
Based on forty interviews with practitioners and other
stakeholders, it offers an understanding of the practices of
official secrets and provides a critical and much-needed
perspective on how parliamentary, judicial and administrative
oversight institutions deal with access to classified material and
the dilemma of oversight to concurrently ensure secrecy necessary
for EU security policies and openness needed for democratic
processes and fundamental rights. The book discerns shifts in
institutional practice of oversight at the European Parliament and
the Court of Justice of the European Union that disproportionately
favour secrecy and the protection of classified documents while
creating serious limitations to open democratic deliberations and
access to justice, and delivers new insights on the EU's
development as a security actor as well as its autonomy from Member
States, showing how rules on official secrets were a means for the
EU to gain more autonomy in external security cooperation.
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