http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190517-144355-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-new-defence-policy-beyond-the-distinction-of-supranational-and-intergovernmental/ The EU’s New Defence Policy – Beyond the Distinction Supranational / Intergovernmental von Achenbach, Jelena eng 2019-03-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Common Security and Defence Policy Defence PESCO Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While most legal scholarship and the Bundesverfassunsgericht hold that Member States remain self-governed in the field of military policy, the New Defence Policy illustrates that this is not the case. PESCO shows how the New Defence Policy is subjecting the Member States to regulatory measures which are generated and enforced through EU political processes that clearly leave behind the intergovernmental form.