Relations Between the European Union and the United Nations - Considerations in the Context of International Security Against the Case of Ahmed Ali Yusuf and Al Barakaat International Foundation
Relations Between the European Union and the United Nations - Considerations in the Context of International Security Against the Case of Ahmed Ali Yusuf and Al Barakaat International Foundation

Summary/Abstract: The actions indicated above and taken by the United Nations and the European Union (in spite of their different international law status) argue that objectives attributed to international organisations are not only postulates, but a basis for actions taken specifically, both in the legal and actual dimension. Therefore, the main research objective adopted for this study was to bring them closer, with particular emphasis on the UN and the EU joint actions for international security. Due to the complexity and multifaceted nature of the discussed subject matter of these considerations, they will be confined to the T-306/01 Ahmed Ali Yusuf and Al Barakaat International Foundation case recognized by the EU Court of First Instance. In there, as in a lens, interrelationships between the international organisations in questions are concentrated; and not only in terms of international cooperation, but, more importantly, in terms of the principle of the primacy of the United Nations law over other legal regimes. Implementing this objective will allow to show that the law of the European Union refers to the achievements of the United Nations and, therefore, to the general categories of international law. This shows that the EU legal order cannot be treated as completely self-sufficient. In the era of fragmentation of international law, determination of interrelationships between the international law and the EU one is crucial for assessing the systemic nature of the former.

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