Bulletin n. 2/2008
September 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
    • Dumoulin André
    Traité de Lisbonne. De l'assistance mutuelle à la defense mutuelle: oscillations et interprétations
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 519, juin ,  2008 ,  351-355
    The comparative study of the mutual assistance clause featured in the Treaty of Lisbon with other legal obligations of mutual defence (NATO and WEU) leads to a series of issues regarding the extent of its application, its interpretation, and the extent to which it may be called upon. The power of the Atlantic Alliance, the differences in commitment, the statutes of the Union's member States and the degree of automatic reaction make the area of solidarity more complex, all the more so because this comes in to play where the response to terrorism is concerned. In the absence of clarification, flexibility remains appropriate from the moment that is the States giving the "interpretation" and "fixing" the rules of the game.
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