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| List of boxes | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Table of cases | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The origins and birth of the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| The process that led to the establishment of the European Union | |
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| The 2002-2003 European Convention and the 2004 Constitutional Treaty and its failed ratification | |
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| From the Constitutional Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| The difficult ratification of the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| The structure of the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| General provisions | |
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| Values and objectives | |
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| Delimitation and clarification of the EU competences | |
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| Basic principles | |
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| The legal personality of the EU | |
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| Variable geometry | |
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| Legislative and non-legislative procedures and Acts | |
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| Procedures for the revision of the Treaties | |
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| Withdrawal of a Member State from the EU | |
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| Democracy | |
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| The European Parliament | |
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| The national parliaments | |
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| The citizens' initiative and other possibilities for citizens to influence decisions of the EU | |
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| The judgment of 30 June 2009 of the German Constitutional Court and the issue of the democratic legitimacy of the EU | |
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| Fundamental Rights | |
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| The origins of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights | |
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| The Charter of Fundamental Rights are referred to in the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| The Protocol on the application of the Charter to Poland and the United Kingdom | |
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| The accession of the EU to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms | |
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| Freedom, Security and Justice | |
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| A short history of Justice and Home Affairs in the EU | |
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| The abolition of the third pillar and the other changes made by the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| Variable geometry in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice | |
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| Institutions | |
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| The European Council | |
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| The Council | |
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| The Commission | |
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| The Court of Justice | |
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| Changes to other institutions and bodies | |
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| Relations between institutions and the interinstitutional balance | |
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| External affairs | |
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| External affairs before the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy | |
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| The European External Action Service | |
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| The Common Foreign and Security Policy | |
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| Security and Defence | |
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| Other sectors of external affairs, including trade policy | |
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| Financial, economic, social and other internal affairs | |
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| The EU budget | |
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| European monetary union and the euro zone | |
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| The internal market and free competition | |
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| Social policy | |
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| Services of general interest | |
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| Agriculture, energy, health and other internal affairs | |
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| Conclusion: the Lisbon Treaty and beyond | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| The judgment of 30 June 2009 of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| The judgment of 26 November 2008 of the Czech Constitutional Court on the Lisbon Treaty | |
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| List of provisions on a simplified revision procedure and of passerelles | |
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| Existing legal bases switched to the ordinary legislative procedure (codecision) | |
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| New legal bases | |
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| List of Articles in the TEU and in the TFEU which enable the European Council to take decisions having legal effects | |
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| Existing legal bases switched from unanimity to qualified majority voting | |
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| Pre-existing legal bases where unanimity, common accord or consensus continues to apply | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |