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Explain any four factors which make the European Union a highly influential organization.

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(i) The European Union is traditionally seen as a new, and partly separate, legal order within the global legal system. At the same time more recent developments revealed the position of the EU as an important player in the global governance network.

(ii) The strong and explicit link between the EU and a large number of other international organizations raises questions concerning the impact of decisions taken by other international  organizations and of international agreements concluded with those organizations (either by the EU itself or its member States) on the autonomy of die EU and its Member States.

(iii) The European Union?s legal order is traditionally seen as largely autonomous within die global legal system.

(iv) At the same time, the EU is an important player in the global governance network and has revealed its dependence on international law and international normative processes.