Awakening dormant law – or the invocation of the European mutual assistance clause after the Paris attacks Moser, Carolyn Author aut Text xx# 2015 Verfassungsblog 2015-11-18 eng
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 After the terrorist attacks of November 13th, France has invoked the mutual assistance clause in the European Treaty. What does this clause actually imply? The short answer to this question is that nobody precisely knows. The statement made by the French Defence Minister on 17 November qualified the invocation of Article 42(7) TEU as a mainly political act – implying that it is symbolic in nature. This, however, is not the whole story. France is requesting her European neighbours to stand united against external security threats – not only by declaratory statements, but by concrete military commitments. This demand, in turn, will impact on the future course of European security and defence, a policy which France has always been keen to enhance. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Moser, Carolyn funded by the government Common Defence and Security Policy Mutual Defence Clause Self-defense 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/awakening-dormant-law-or-the-invocation-of-the-european-mutual-assistance-clause-after-the-paris-attacks/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20170426-133850 151118 10.17176/20170426-133850 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)