The Union After Lisbon - The treaty reform of the EU (dedikált)

This book provides a comprehensive and digestible overview of the Lisbon Treaty's impact on the functioning of the European Union, its Member States, and citizens. It is based on a comparative structure, first presenting how the EU functioned before Lisbon and then describing the post-Lisbon situation. It sheds light on how the reform of the institutional framework and that of the decision making process are fundamentally interrelated with the lobbying powers of individual Member States and with their capacity to shape the Union's policies. The approach and language used allows both specialists and the wider public to understand the framework introduced by the new treaty in all policy areas. The authors themselves, as parliamentary and governmental officials, participated in the years long process of reflection and negotiations leading to the drafting of the Lisbon Treaty. As a result, the theoretical issues pertaining to the Treaty are brought to life by references to practical experiences obtained during long meetings and hard debates. The book was pre selected for the European Book Prize (Prix du Livre Europeen) in 2011 in non fiction category. The winner will be revealed in December 2011. The prize is a European Union literary award and it seeks to promote European values, and to contribute to European citizens' better understanding of the European Union as a cultural entity.

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