Official Secrets and Oversight in the EU

Dr Vigjilenca Abazi is assistant professor of European law at Maastricht University. She has been an Emile Nöel Fellow at NYU School of Law and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. Dr Abazi holds a PhD degree from University of Amsterdam and LLM from Yale Law School. She has more than 20 scientific peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and is member of editorial board at European Journal of Risk Regulation. She has been invited for more than 40 academic guest lectures at leading universities worldwide including at Harvard Law School, Oxford University, European University Institute, University of Tokyo, FGV Brazil, NYU (campuses: Abu Dhabi, New York, Florence, Paris), Sciences Po Paris. Her work has been translated in Russian, German, and Spanish and featured in news media such as Der Spiegel, Le Monde, EU Observer, Bloomberg and Publico. In addition to her academic work, Dr Abazi has offered legal advice to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.

• Introduction 1: The Oversight Dilemma and Democratic Constraints of Official Secrets in the EU Constitutional Context 2: EU Regulation of Official Secrets 3: EU Practices of Official Secrets: Administrative Discretion in Practice Introduction 4: Access to Official Secrets and Reviewing Executive Secrecy 5: Closed Parliamentary Oversight and Secret Evidence in EU Courts Conclusions