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THE LISBON TREATY AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Michel Mangenot
; Sveučilište u Strasbourgu, Strasbourg, Francuska
Sažetak
Europe is a contingent product of its institutions rather than a political project.
Although the announced goal was simplification and rationalization of its institutional
system, the opposite occurred: the system has become even more
complex. The author looks into the process dynamics and implementation
results of the Lisbon Treaty (effective 1 December 2009), showing that the
traditional European compromise leads to outcomes that none of the actors
really wanted, and that no one is satisfied with. The European Union is an
arena of institutional coercions and games, the rules of which are occasionally
readjusted. This occasional readjustment accounts for the survival of the system,
which is a priori unstable, for each unsatisfied partner thinks and hopes
that redefinition might provide him with an opportunity to gain a better position.
The process is especially visible in negotiations regarding the Lisbon
Treaty, above all in the institutional innovation which is the function of the
new president (of the European Council). The conclusive interpretation of the
Lisbon Treaty will depend on the outcome of the bureaucratic struggle right
until 2011, and prior to a new definition of the rules, undoubtedly no later
than 2014. The new EU system testifies primarily to the fundamental trait of
European integration, which strongly favoured from the outset a repeated rethinking
of its form (its institutions) in the light of considerations regarding
its goals (its policies).
Ključne riječi
European Union; Lisbon Treaty; Council of the European Union; European Council; European Commission; High Representative for Foreign Affairs
Hrčak ID:
57694
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Datum izdavanja:
30.6.2010.
Posjeta: 3.771 *