THE LISBON TREATY – AN IMPORTANT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
THE LISBON TREATY – AN IMPORTANT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: instruments, and specific methods of action, promoting, elaborating, and applying the regulations enclosed in its normative “acts” named “treaties”. The treaties decreed at the level of the European Union have consecrated, each in its own moment, an analysis and a concrete evaluation of the steps made in the overview of the evolution of the entity, and in equal measure, they have projected the future steps, stages, strategies, perspectives, means of institutional development. One of these treaties, of a cardinal importance to the evolution of the EU, was constituted by the amendment Treaty for the Treaty concerning the European Union and the Treaty instituting the European Community, signed on the 13th of December 2007 at Lisbon, also known under the name of the Treaty of Lisbon. The main novel modifications and/or elements provided by this Treaty can be circumscribed to the following important aspects: the reaffirmation or certain principles and other fundamental values on which the European adherence process is based, the reaffirmation and guaranteeing of certain stipulations concerning human rights, the reforming of institutions (the President of the European Union, The European Parliament, The European Union Council, the European Commission), external politics, the facilitation of flexibility and the consolidation of UE actions regarding the area of freedom, security, and justice, granting the status of a unique legal entity to the European Union, the principle of supremacy of the community law, the taking into account of certain interests and specific material elements, the novelties in the domain of decision-making procedures etc. The perfection and adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon positively ended a rather drawn-out process of political searches and unrest, succeeding in bringing to a common denominator the interests of the member states, which found their aspirations were reflected in the form of the legal instrument signed in December 2007.

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