The Lisbon treaty - publié le 12/07/2013

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After the abandonment of the project of European Constitution, the idea of a simplified treaty was held by Member states to boost the institutional reform of the European Union. The treaty of Lisbon has to allow in particular Europe Twenty seven to work in a more effective and more democratic way. Since the beginning, the construction of Europe came true thanks to a succession of treaties negotiated by Member states: the treaty of Rome of 1957, the Single European Act of 1986, the treaty of Maastricht of 1992, the treaty of Amsterdam of 1997 and the treaty of Nice of 2000.

Since the 90s, the European Union (EU) is confronted with three challenges: the need to improve the efficiency of the decision-making of the EU following the enlargement, the concern to strengthen the democracy in the functioning of the community institutions and the will to increase the coherence of the foreign actions of the Union. These challenges are at the origin of the Declaration of Laeken (in December 15th, 2001) by which the heads of state and government make a commitment to reform the European institutions to return the more democratic and more effective Union.

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[...] For the Extrem Left part the fight anti constitution was lead by the anti capitalism like Olivier besancenot who is a post man. He said that the France vote yes all the big company will practice relocation in the Eastern Europe”. So it was for him also an anti government vote. So cause of these guys (in part for sure) the France voted and the process was stopped. Moreover France was one of the motor of the European construction. And it was a French politician Valérie Giscard d'Estaing who worked on this project. [...]

[...] The Czech Republic is also satisfied about the IGC work. Indeed, "the suppression of the European symbols and the constitutional initiative, as the intensification of the role of the national parliaments» answer completely the preoccupations of this State. Sweden shows itself critical on the dispensations (opting-out) allowing certain States to escape of one or several measures of the treaty, but insists especially on the necessity of ratifying quickly the text. Even Rumania in a context Europhile does not put particular difficulties. [...]

[...] He was succeeded by Yves Leterme, who was also his predecessor. On 19 November 2009 Van Rompuy was designated the first permanent President of the European Council under the Treaty of Lisbon. He took up this position on 1 December 2009 and is elected to chair the institution until 31 May 2012. His team is constituted of: - Catherine Ashton (High representative for the foreign policy): A British Labour politician, Ashton was made a life peer in 1999 by the Labour government and held junior ministerial appointments in three government departments. [...]

[...] This text, approved by the informal Council of Lisbon of October 18th and 19th is signed by 27 heads of state and government on December 13th But three years after the "not French and Dutch to the constitutional treaty, the "not Irish to the treaty of Lisbon in June comes in his turn to check the institutional reform of the Union, before intervenes a second positive referendum, this time, in October Why was the european constitution rejected? (France case) In may 2005 the project of a European was rejected in France by referendum. The score of the was 54,67%. But it was not because the constitution was not good but in France the refusal was due to the extreme parties. For the Extreme Right part the main protagonist was Philippe de Villiers. His strategy was to put the the demand of Turkey to integrate the Europe in the center of the debate to frighten people. [...]

[...] The treaty of Lisbon has to allow in particular Europe Twenty seven to work in a more effective and more democratic way. Since the beginning, the construction of Europe came true thanks to a succession of treaties negotiated by Member states: the treaty of Rome of 1957, the Single European Act of 1986, the treaty of Maastricht of 1992, the treaty of Amsterdam of 1997 and the treaty of Nice of 2000. Since the 90s, the European Union is confronted with three challenges: the need to improve the efficiency of the decision-making of the EU following the enlargement, the concern to strengthen the democracy in the functioning of the community institutions and the will to increase the coherence of the foreign actions of the Union. [...]