ABSTRACT
This chapter consists of five sections. Section 1 presents the main findings of this volume on the international role and the impact of the European Parliament (EP). Section 2 deals more specifically with another way of assessing those dimensions: socialization and Europeanization. Section 3 considers the question of the institutionalization of the EP’s external role in general and more specifically with reference to the impact of the Lisbon Treaty (LT) provisions. Section 4 covers the EP and international conflicts. Section 5 puts those conclusions into the wider context of the existing literature on International Parliamentary Institutions (IPIs) and also suggests a number of additional possible avenues for further research.
