Approximately ten years after the Lisbon Treaty came into force, the debate on reforming the European Union has reached new heights. A decade of ‚poly-crisis‘ has rattled long-held certitudes. At the same time, phenomena such as Brexit, a new European Commission, a new European Parliament,...

"While provisions relating to a common commercial policy (CCP) were already to be found in Articles 110- 116 of the original Treaty of Rome, and a common customs tariff was established during the 1960s,1 it was only in an Opinion of 1975 that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed...