Europe and the world have changed. The 21st century brings new challenges and new opportunities. The interaction of economies and peoples worldwide – whether by communication, trade, migration, shared security, concerns or cultural exchange – is in constant evolution. European Union needs a...

Signed on the 13th of December 2007 by all 27 member states, the Treaty of Lisbon will enter into force on the 1st of January 2009. Though, the ratification process was delayed by some members states which asked for some modifications. The ratification process came to an end this year, in...

Through this paper, I intend to analyze the European Union in the post adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon era, from a realistic perspective, which would put in the foreground concrete problems faced these days by this “unidentified political object1″, with the hope that the recognition of...

This article has the purpose to present the changes that take place in the Internal Market in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty, the most important evolutions were accomplished in the area of the liberalization of the services and work circulation. In the first part the evolutions of the Common...

The article presents the evolution of the unratified Constitutional Treaty’s stipulations to the final form of the Lisbon Treaty. The process through which the form of the Reform Treaty was reached as well as the excluded elements from the Constitutional Treaty with the purpose of excluding...

Enlargement is one of the most important issue for European Union. The situation that makes this issue important is the influence of membership of the candidate states on the voting power distribution. In this study, the impact of membership of Turkey on voting power distribution is evaluated...

After a short presentation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and its features, the paper is focused on the European Union?s accession to the European Convention of Human Rights. As part of the Treaty of Lisbon implementation, this process is not an easy one. The author intends to identify and...

Are well-known Declaration on the Future of Europe (Annex to the Treaty of Nice) and the Declaration of Laeken (Belgium, 2001), which have created the Convention on the Future of Europe, under the patronage of former President of France and European Movement (Brussels), namely Mr. Valery Giscard...

The Treaty of Lisbon, which was signed on 13 December 2007 by the 27 Heads of State or Government of the Member States of the Union, comes into force on 1 December 2009. It amends the two fundamental treaties - the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty establishing the European...

With the entrance into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, at 1st December 2009, the criminal law has passed from the exclusively national sphere of the Member States under the patronage of the European Union. According to the Treaty, the European Parliament and the Council now have the possibility...