http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180914-140048-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/trade-security-and-defence-holding-cecilia-malmstroem-and-federica-mogherini-accountable/ Trade, Security and Defence: Holding Cecilia Malmström and Federica Mogherini Accountable Larik, Joris ger 2018-09-14 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The shift away from a technocratic, apolitical European Commission towards a politicized one is a momentous development of the European Union. In the Common Commercial Policy and the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the EU has constitutionalized and institutionalized different degrees of accountability mechanisms in this special domain of foreign affairs