This article questions the nature and character of the amendments the Lisbon Treaty makes to the EU's legislative procedures. Do these changes make for real legislature? If we want to know that, the first question to be addressed is: what actually make for a real legislature? What are the...

By the end of 2009, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Poland finally ratified the Treaty of Lisbon. This marked the end of a turbulent period that had seen the Laeken Declaration, a controversial and rejected proposal for a Constitution for Europe (in 2005), and the hard fight over the compromise...