Bulletin n. 1/2008
May 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Laurent Sylvain, Rapoport Cécile, Delcourt Christine
    Du Traité constitutionnel au Traité modificatif de Lisbonne. Première partie: Coups de projecteur sur les "Traités fondateurs" de l'Union rénovée
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , numero 518, mai ,  2008 ,  288-297
    Since being signed on the 13th December 2007, the Treaty of Lisbon has already been the subject of various general comments and following the example of previous treaties, it will certainly have its different articles commented on one by one in a single volume. As a way of discussing this new treaty, the team at the Rennes Centre of European Research, coordinated by C. Delcourt, has chosen a different approach. With no worries about the commentary being too exhaustive or one-dimensional, they have opted for a thematic and selective approach to the text by shedding some spotlight on certain aspects of the Treaty of Lisbon, which for the most part, is not a pure and simple copy-and-paste version of the constitutional treaty. This will shed light on five big topics dealt with in five successive issues of the Revue du Marché commun et de l'Union européenne: the first two topics - the founding treaties (I) and the values (II) of the reformed Union - will be followed by three topics which arise naturally since they correspond to the stated objectives of the reform, not only in the mandate of the IGC 2007, but also in the final version of the preamble of the Treaty of Lisbon, namely, the efficiency (III), democratic legitimacy (IV) and the coherence of EU action (V). First part: Spotlight on the "founding treaties" of the reformed Union (it includes three articles: Sylvain Laurent, "Le processus de déconstitutionnalisation opéré par le Traité de Lisbonne", pp. 289-291; Cécile Rapoport, "Interrogations sur la réorganisation du droit primaire de l'Union européenne", pp. 292-295; Christine Delcourt, "Traité de Lisbonne et acquis communautaire", pp. 296-297). A triple shedding of light enables the answers to the three following questions to be formed: in what way are the treaties reformed by the Treaty of Lisbon the same thing as a deconstitutionalisation comapres to the so-called "constitutional treaty". Which are the questions raised by the new arrangements of the Union's primary law? What connections do the reformed treaties have with the acquis communitaire?
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