nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170426-133850 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 151118s2015||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170426-133850 doi eng 342 23 Moser, Carolyn Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-5578-9278 Awakening dormant law – or the invocation of the European mutual assistance clause after the Paris attacks Moser, Carolyn Verfassungsblog 2015-11-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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 Common Defence and Security Policy Mutual Defence Clause Self-defense Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/awakening-dormant-law-or-the-invocation-of-the-european-mutual-assistance-clause-after-the-paris-attacks/ raw object