The Lisbon Treaty: A Legal and Political Analysis: A Legal and Political Analysis. With Foreword by Angela Merkel (Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy)
Cambridge University Press, 6/17/2010
EAN 9780521142342, ISBN10: 0521142342
Paperback, 448 pages, 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Given the controversies and difficulties which preceded the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, it is easy to forget that the Treaty is a complex legal document in need of detailed analysis for its impact to be fully understood. Jean-Claude Piris, the Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union, provides such an analysis, looking at the historical and political contexts of the Treaty, its impact on the democratic framework of the EU and its provisions in relation to substantive law. Impartial legal analysis of the EU's functions, its powers and the treaties which govern it make this the seminal text on the most significant recent development in EU law.
Introduction
1. Origins and birth of the Treaty of Lisbon
2. General provisions
3. Democracy
4. Fundamental rights
5. Freedom, security and justice
6. Institutions
7. External affairs
8. Financial, economic, social and other internal affairs
9. Conclusion
the Treaty of Lisbon and beyond
10. Annexes.
'This book traces the outline of the historical process and in so doing clearly elucidates the roots of the core provisions and also the relationships between them. At the same time the work illuminates the most significant judgements relating to the Lisbon Treaty - for instance the judgement by the German Federal Constitutional Court. The book achieves in effect a comprehensive assessment of existing primary law in the European Union, written by an authoritative hand.' Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany