Contesting procedural norms: the impact of politicisation on European foreign policy cooperation

While there is increasing evidence in the literature of politicisation area European foreign policy, we know less about how this has affected dynamics cooperation among EU member states and, specifically, procedural norms that govern policy. This article concerned with and contestation manifest at micro-level they might shape everyday policy negotiations. It seeks to establish what extent – resulting from emergence a new political cleavage centred around issues identity supranational integration driven normative within negotiations whether led erosion long-standing Our findings suggest despite CFSP Council committees being an institutional arena, characterised by intergovernmental, relatively insulated, technical decision-making, current processes linked rise populism transfer authority EEAS have increased setting. However, remained resilient these challenges.