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Sursele originalităţii instituţiilor UE
The Sources of EU Institutions’ Originality

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: European Union; Treaty of Lisbon; European construction; Maastricht phase; post-Nice phas;, EU institutions

Summary/Abstract: This article seeks to provide, by using a legal approach and a chronological perspective on the European construction, an answer to the issue of the European Union’s legal nature. The many stages completed by this economic and, subsequently, political construction have brought about numerous changes of substance, concerning the powers of the three original economic integration organisations (EEC, EC, EURATOM), subsequently incorporated in a multilevel system with a political governance unique in the world (the European Union), a multifaceted construction, whose powers have increased progressively both in relation to the Member States and to the organisations of economic integration (EEC, EC). During other stages, we witness the strengthening of the European Union (EU), the development of the European Community through the Lisbon Treaty (the other organisation of specific integration, the European Economic Community, having lasted a limited period of time, had already stopped to exist legally in 2002), we witness its substitution by the EU and the incorporation of EURATOM in the new EU. The evolution towards ever more coherent stages of European federalism illustrates the dynamism of this construction and its progressive consolidation (an expression of neo-functionalism) of the EU’s original nature.

  • Issue Year: 50/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 49-61
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian