The Naval and Maritime Dimension of the EU

Abstract

The crossinstitutional maritime dimension of the EU’s security mirrors its overall institutional structure, that is to say, a combination of intergovernmental processes institutionalised at the level of the Council and supranational processes spanning across the Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS), and various decentralised agencies. There is a naval dimension of the EU within the CSDP as well as a more comprehensive maritime dimension of the EU, going beyond the IMP, which encompasses military, civilian, police, economic, and normative subdimensions.¹