THE MAKING OF THE EU'S LISBON TREATY by Dr. Finn Laursen (Editor) ( 9789052018126 )

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THE MAKING OF THE EU'S LISBON TREATY
THE ROLE OF MEMBER STATES

By:

Dr. Finn Laursen (Editor)

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PRESSES INTERUNIVERSITAIRES EUROPEENNES

Pub. date:

10 March, 2012

Series:

Cite Europeenne/European Policy 49

Pages:

324

Synopsis:

The European Union (EU) has gone through a number of treaty reforms since the establishment of the European Communities in the 1950s and the creation of the European Union by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. The latest such reform is the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009. In this book, a number of scholars explore the process of producing the Lisbon Treaty. The focus is on the role of member states, arguably the 'masters of the treaty.' Intergovernmental conferences have become the main setting for treaty reforms since the Single European Act (SEA) in the mid-1980s. This makes national preferences and inter-state bargaining important when new treaties are negotiated. The Lisbon Treaty delineates a number of institutional changes. In the end the product has to be evaluated against the standards established at the outset. Will the treaty improve the efficiency, democratic legitimacy as well as the coherence of the Union's external action, as the member states claimed it would? While the final text of the treaty leaves the EU with some new institutional possibilities, it also has its limitations, especially in the area of foreign and security policy.

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Belgium

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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes

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