The Lisbon Treaty
Subtitle: a legal and political analysis
By: Jean-Claude Piris
Series: Cambridge studies in European law and policy; Cambridge studies in European law and policy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780521197922; 9780521142342
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-403) and index.
Table of contents: title: The process that led to the establishment of the European Union; title: The 2002-2003 European Convention and the 2004 constitutional treaty and its failed ratification; title: From the constitutional treaty to the Lisbon Treaty; title: The difficult ratification of the Lisbon Treaty; title: The structure of the Lisbon Treaty; title: Values and objectives; title: Delimitation and clarification of the EU competences; title: Basic principles; title: The legal personality of the EU; title: Variable geometry; title: Legislative and non-legislative procedures and acts; title: Procedures for the revision of the treaties; title: Withdrawal of a member state from the EU; title: The European parliament; title: The national parliaments; title: The citizens' initiative and other possibilities for the citizens to influence decisions of the EU; title: The judgment of 30 June 2009 of the German constitutional court and the issue of the democratic legitimacy of the EU; title: The origins of the EU Charter of fundamental rights; title: The Charter of fundamental rights as referred to in the Lisbon Treaty; title: The protocol on the application of the Charter to Poland and the United Kingdom; title: The accession of the EU to the European Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; title: A short history of justice and home affairs in the EU; title: The abolition of the third pillar and the other changes made by the Lisbon Treaty; title: Variable geometry in the area of freedom, security, and justice; title: The European Council; title: The Council; title: The Commission; title: The Court of Justice; title: Changes to other institutions and bodies; title: Relations between institutions and the interinstitutional balance; title: External affairs before the Lisbon Treaty; title: The high representative of the union for foreign affairs and security policy; title: The European external action service; title: The common foreign and security policy; title: Security and defence; title: Other sectors of external affairs, including trade policy; title: The EU budget; title: European monetary union and the Euro zone; title: The internal market and free competition; title: Social policy; title: Services of general interest; title: Agriculture, energy, health and other internal affairs.