Concluding Thoughts

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter offers conclusions to the handbook on EU diplomatic law, which has found that EU diplomacy, despite its practices and wide recognition, gives rise to a considerable number of vexed legal problems and questions. It makes the case for the Union functioning as a diplomatic actor in its own right as an entity separate from its member states. Concretely, it looks at the EU in the general international diplomatic legal system, how the Union’s propensity for conformism in the diplomatic arena works in practice, and the contributions made by the EU to diplomatic and consular law.