The study analyzes the European Union after the Lisbon Treaty and Romania’s place and part in this new European context. Specifically, we identify the changes the Treaty brings and the way in which the Romanian institutions and policies should thereat react. We also draw a picture of the state...

The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a...