Contributions based on reports presented at a conference organized in Geneva, 2014.

Introduction : the European Union in international organisations : functional necessity of general aspiration? / Christine Kaddous -- The United Nations : a European Union perspective / Mariangela Zappia -- The position of the European Union in the United Nations : a United Nations perspective / Markus Schmidt -- Improving the European Union's status in the United Nations and the UN system : an objective without a strategy? / Jan Wouters, Anna-Luise Chané, Jed Odermatt and Thomas Ramopoulos -- Coordination between the European Union and its member states / Marco Ferri -- European Union participation and cooperation in ILO institutions and activities : an ILO perspective / Geneviéve Pons-Deladriére -- The European Union in the World Trade Organization Post-Lisbon : no single change to the single voice? / Detlev Brauns and Tomas Baert -- The European Union and its member states' participation in the World Trade Organization : a WTO perspective / János Volkai -- The European Union in the World Trade Organization : a model for the EU's status in international organisations? / Frank Hoffmeister -- Coordination between the European Union and the member states : an EU perspective / Lourdes Chamorro -- The European Union and the World Health Organization : interactions and collaboration from a governance and policy perspective / Gian Luca Burci -- The European Union's role and potential in research and innovation for global health / Ilona Kickbusch, Stephen A Matlin, Samantha Battams and Albrecht Jahn -- The European Union in the World Intellectual Property Organization : from a cloudy complexity towards an ordered pluralism : an external appraisal / Jean-Christophe Galloux -- How to evaluate the European Union as a normative power in multilevel governance of public goods? : methodological pluralism and its constitutional limits in European governance / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann.