A little recap and the development process of the Treaty of Lisbon. Get get reference material, send me an email at me@abadeel.com

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE
TREATY OF LISBON
ABDUL BASIT ADEEL

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Recap:
• Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
• Year 2004
• European Union as a single legal personality under
domestic and international law
• The public response was not to the expectation
• Opposition within EU states regarding to different issues

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Lisbon Treaty:
• Old wine in the new bottle
• In 2006 European Council decided to retain some parts of
the old treaty with new amendments
• Significant role of Germany, particularly Merkel
• The British, Dutch & French wanted to avoid referendums
 Old treaties to be amended on the basis of proposed treaty

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Demands of the States:
• Britain wanted to retain national control of foreign
policy, defense policy, social security, and civil law.
• France wanted to avoid another referendum.
• Poland wanted to ensure double majority / QMV.
• Germany tried to highlight all unresolved issues like
European symbols, Common Law, QMV etc. as well as
a brand new treaty.

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Development:
• The June 2007 summit
• Acceptance of Britain's propositions
• Poland withdrew their demand conditionally*
• Referendums in Ireland
• Treaty signed December 2007
• Irish referendum resulted 54% against in June 2008

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Further Development:
• December 2008 Decision of European Council
• Irish election of December 2009 – 67% favored
• Czech President concern over ethnic Germans
• Option: opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights
• German Parliament approved by Majority
• After approval by constitutional court in June 2009, signed
by the German President

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The Treaty became effective on 1 December, 2009