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The EU’s commitment in the field of non-proliferation runs deep and has made significant contributions to the peace and stability Europe has enjoyed since the end of the Second World War. The most advanced instruments for European political cooperation have been used in this delicate sector.

On 15th December 2006, the EU summit took the decision to suspend eight of the 35 chapters that form the agenda for Turkey’s accession negotiations. While the move was finely judged, in that it avoided the long feared “train crash” in ties, it was a public demonstration of the choppiness of the bilateral relationship. As such, the decision soured what [...] segue https://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/wp_11_2007.pdf 

Virtually every political order has had to deal with the problem of pluralism. The existence of different groups with their own claims to political autonomy has been a challenge for many states and some have been more successful than others in recognizing the claims of competing groups. This has been in particular a problem for the European Union, which was initially an intergovernmental organization aimed at fostering the national interests of its members.

Before one proceeds from the assumption that international custom is a recognised source of international law one should pause to determine whether this expression still has the meaning commonly accepted by most jurists at the time they were students – and never questioned thereafter. We are sometimes warned that customary norms in the international sphere are not anymore what they used to be, and that the formation of customary law has undergone important changes.