The Treaty of Lisbon has brought major innovations in the institutional framework of the EU. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possible consequences of these institutional innovations on the management and the implementation of the European Union's external action, particularly in...

The active involvement of European citizens became a new form of democracy in the Treaty of Lisbon of 2009 by the introduction of a whole new chapter dedicated to this purpose. There is an article that obligates the Commission to give serious consideration to the demands of one million citizens...

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, and...

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,...

Following the unsuccessful Treaty on the Constitution for Europe project, European Union member states adopted the Treaty of Lisbon. The Treaty of Lisbon brought about certain amendments in the institutional framework of the European Union, targeted at increasing the efficiency of the Union’s...

The aim of the reforms introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon was to simplify and make more transparent the system of Union legal sources and that of the decision-making procedures. This paper examines that how the system of Union legal sources and that of the previous legislative and...

One of the problems that bring a strong lately (despite past failures in implementing the new European construction) is what effect it will have on Romania's accession to the European Union for the Constitution of our country. In the last two years, much less attention has been given to the...

The institutional framework and the tools for economic governance provided by the Treaty of Lisbon were inadequate for preventing or resolving the recent banking and sovereign debt crisis in the EU. For instance, the Treaty did not provide any instruments for stabilizing euro area finances, and...