Designing the European Union

From Paris to Lisbon

F. Laursen

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780230367760
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230367579
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: European Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book outlines the content of the main treaties that form the 'constitutional' basis of the European Union and analyses changes in these over time. The EU has expanded its policy scope and taken in many more members transferring powers to common supranational institutions in a way seen nowhere else in the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables and Boxes
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction: On the Study of EU Treaties and Treaty Reforms
• 2 The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and European Defence Community (EDC) Treaties
• 3 All Roads Lead to Rome: Background, Content and Legacy of the Treaties on the European Economic and European Atomic Energy Communities
• 4 The 1965 Merger Treaty: The First Reform of the Founding European Community Treaties
• 5 The 1970 and 1975 Budget Treaties: Enhancing the Democratic Architecture of the Community
• 6 The Single European Act: Revitalising European Integration
• 7 The Treaty of Maastricht: Designing the European Union
• 8 The Amsterdam Treaty: Modest Reforms
• 9 The Treaty of Nice: The Inadequate Preparation of Enlargement
• 10 The Constitutional Treaty: The Failed Formal Constitutionalisation
• 11 The Treaty of Lisbon: Constitutional Treaty, Episode II
• 12 Conclusions: So What do we Know about EU Treaties and their Reforms? And Where May we be Going?
• References
• Index