CONSIDERATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE LEGAL PERSONALITY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE LEGAL PERSONALITY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: After nearly sixty years of development, the European Union has become an important actor in international relations and is a benchmark for stability, democracy and human rights. In order to promote these values, the European Union needed effective and coherent tools, adapted not only to the functioning of an enlarged Union of 27 Member States, but also for the rapid changes that the world of today is facing. By adopting the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union has acquired legal personality, which allows it to work more effectively and consistently worldwide, thus acquired a strengthened position in relations with partner countries and organizations around the world. Considering that until the acquire legal personality the European Union was based on the European Communities that each had separate legal personality and so there were a series of controversies about the legitimacy of the Union's relations with other subjects of national law and international law. Therefore, this article tries to clarify unclear aspects regarding the legal personality of the European Communities / European Union and also to analyze the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon according that the European Union may exercise its legal personality in the legal order of the Member States and in the international legal order.

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