The Lisbon Treaty : a legal and political analysis /
Given the controversies and difficulties which preceded the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, it is easy to forget that the Treaty is a complex legal document in need of detailed analysis for its impact to be fully understood. Jean-Claude Piris, the Director General of the Legal Service of the...
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2010
Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : 2010 Cambridge : 2010 |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in European law and policy
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The origins and birth of the Lisbon Treaty
- General provisions
- Democracy
- Fundamental rights
- Freedom, security and justice
- Institutions
- External affairs
- Financial, economic, social and other internal affairs
- Conclusion : The Lisbon Treaty and beyond
- Appendix 1. The judgment of 30 June 2009 of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the Lisbon Treaty
- Appendix 2. The judgment of 26 November 2008 of the Czech Constitutional Court on the Lisbon Treaty
- Appendix 3. List of provisions on a simplified revision on a simplified revision procedure and of passerelles
- Appendix 4. Existing legal bases switched to the ordinary legislative procedure (codecision)
- Appendix 5. New legal bases
- Appendix 6. List of Articles in the TEU and in the TFEU which enable the European Council to take decisions having legal effects
- Appendix 7. Existing legal bases switched from unanimity to qualified majority voting
- Appendix 8. Pre-existing legal bases where unanimity, common accord or consensus continues to apply
- The process that led to the establishment of the European Union
- The 2002-2003 European Convention and the 2004 constitutional treaty and its failed ratification
- From the constitutional treaty to the Lisbon Treaty
- The difficult ratification of the Lisbon Treaty
- The structure of the Lisbon Treaty
- Values and objectives
- Delimitation and clarification of the EU competences
- Basic principles
- The legal personality of the EU
- Variable geometry
- Legislative and non-legislative procedures and acts
- Procedures for the revision of the treaties
- Withdrawal of a member state from the EU
- The European parliament
- The national parliaments
- The citizens' initiative and other possibilities for the citizens to influence decisions of the EU
- The judgment of 30 June 2009 of the German constitutional court and the issue of the democratic legitimacy of the EU
- The origins of the EU Charter of fundamental rights
- The Charter of fundamental rights as referred to in the Lisbon Treaty
- The protocol on the application of the Charter to Poland and the United Kingdom
- The accession of the EU to the European Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms
- A short history of justice and home affairs in the EU
- The abolition of the third pillar and the other changes made by the Lisbon Treaty
- Variable geometry in the area of freedom, security, and justice
- The European Council
- The Council
- The Commission
- The Court of Justice
- Changes to other institutions and bodies
- Relations between institutions and the interinstitutional balance
- External affairs before the Lisbon Treaty
- The high representative of the union for foreign affairs and security policy
- The European external action service
- The common foreign and security policy
- Security and defence
- Other sectors of external affairs, including trade policy
- The EU budget
- European monetary union and the Euro zone
- The internal market and free competition
- Social policy
- Services of general interest
- Agriculture, energy, health and other internal affairs