The Lisbon Treaty is the outcome of several constitutional compromises. The compromise between different political (supranational and intergovernmental) views of the Union, the compromise between the member states engaged in building a European Monetary Union (EMU) and those allowed to opt-out...

The euro crisis has radically transformed the institutional and legal configuration of the European Union (EU) as formalized by the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. The crisis has altered the structure of multiple compromises that made the Lisbon Treaty possible. In particular it has altered the...

If one recognises that the European Council has come to embody the political head of the Union, then, rather than trying to hide or hinder such evolution, it might be more rational to reform the process of selection of its president so as to make its role more effective and legitimate. The...

The Lisbon Treaty is the outcome of several constitutional compromises. The compromise between the supranational and the intergovernmental views of the European Union (EU), the compromise between the member states engaged in building a European Monetary Union (EMU) and those allowed to opt-out...

The Lisbon Treaty has institutionalized a dual constitution, supranational in the single market's policies and intergovernmental in (among others) economic and financial policies. The extremely complex system of economic governance set up for answering the euro crisis has been defined and...