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The Lisbon Treaty: The Irish ‘No’.: Europe's New Realism: The Treaty of Lisbon*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2008

Abstract

Institutional reforms – The principle of democracy: the European Parliament and the national parliaments – Bypassing unpleasant national debates by taking the European route – Reinforcement of protection of the subsidiarity principle: most valuable reform – Doubts on the effectiveness – Crucial weakness: creeping transfers of competences still possible

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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2008

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* Excerpts from ‘Europas Neue Nüchternheit: Der Vertrag Von Lissabon’, a speech given at the Humboldt University of Berlin on 21 Feb. 2008 at the Forum Constitutionis Europae, an event jointly organised by the Walter Hallstein-Institut and the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Translated from the German by Jeremy B. Bierbach.