Lisbon Treaty
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https://doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2010.01.04Abstract
Rejection of Constitutional treaty and enlargement of EU to 27 member states drew highlights for the need of institutional reform of the Union. These reforms were important for the functioning of the EU. So, leaders of member states prepared a new treaty which will fulfill needed reforms in order to achieve the goals. Thus, in order to avoid the referendums, they decided to take out those parts of the rejected treaty and to continue forward with reformation of European Union. Lisbon treaty is designed to achieve these institutional reforms and to be more close to the citizens of EU member states. There are some institutional changes and other provisions that leads toward this goal. Also, it makes the Union more accountable and transparent. All these purposes are achieved through involvement of National Parliament, strengthening of European Parliament, giving to the citizens more involvement in EU decision-making through citizen’s initiative. Now, we expect the positive results in practicing all these reforms that are included in the Lisbon Treaty.Keywords:
European Union, EU, EU integration, European Parliament,Downloads
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Wolfgang Wessel and Udo Diedrich, „A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament – The Evolution of the European Parliament“, European Integration Online Papers, Vol. 1, No. 6, 1997.
Marcus H reth, “No way out for the beast? The unsolved legitimacy problem of European governance”, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999.
Thomas König, “Why do member states empower the European Parliament?”, Journal of European Public Policy, 15:2, 2008.
Julia De Clerk-Sachsse and Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, “The European Parliament – More powerful, less legitimate? An outlook of the 7th term”, CEPS Working Document No. 314, 2009.
Pieter de Wilde, “Designing Politicization, How control mechanisms in national parliaments affect parliamentary debate in EU policy-formulation”, Arena Working Paper No. 13, August 2009.
Augustín José Menéndez, “Neither Constitution, Nor Treaty, A deliberative democratic analysis of the Constitutional Treaty of the European Union”, Arena Working Paper No. 8, January 2005.
Arthur Benz, “Path-Dependent Institutions and Strategic Veto Power: National Parliaments in the European Union”, West European Politics, Vol. 27, No. 5, 2004.
The Law Society, “A guide to the Treaty of Lisbon”, European Union insight, January 2008.
Henrik Clausen, “The Lisbon Treaty: The problem of democratic legitimacy”.
Reseach and Library Service, “The Lisbon Treaty – Application of the Principle of Subsidiarity”, Briefing Note 47/8.
The Lisbon Treaty, Information leaflet for the citizens of the European Union, www.europaforum.lu
Jonas Sjöstedt, “The Lisbon Treaty – Centralisation and Neoliberalism”, Röda EUtema, No. 10.
Edward Best, “The Lisbon Treaty: A Qualified Advance for EU Decision-Making and Governance”, EIPASCOPE 2008/1.
Official Journal of European Union, “Consolidated version of the Treaty on European Union”, Article 13.
Christa Tobler, “The Lisbon Treaty”, Europa Institute, March 2008.
European Commision, “Proposal of a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on citizens’ initiative”, 2010/0074 (COD), {SEC(2010)370}
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