The Lisbon Treaty has carried out an exact and systematic classification of decision procedures in the legislative area. It distinguishes two kinds of mutual interaction of the most important EU organs in adopting legislative acts of the Union: the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP) and the...

This paper assesses the impact of the Lisbon Treaty reform of the EU foreign policy on the actorness of the EU. It is because Europe as a global actor is one of the principal issues of the Treaty of Lisbon. Owing to a growing role of the EU in the world politics, the actorness of the EU has been...

The Treaty of Lisbon introduced a set of institutional reforms in the European Union that had been under negotiation ever since the establishment, in 2002, of the Convention on the Future of the EU. This paper sums up and briefly assesses the main changes that affect the functioning of the...

The article „EU Budget Reform – Great Expectations vs. Current State” presents the view of the Ministry of Finance officers, who are actively involved in the preparation of the Czech Republic for the discussion on the EU budget review and the future financial framework. Introductory...

Lisbon Treaty brings some changes in the EU Common Commercial Policy and related decision processes. CCP is newly a part of the EU external policies, to which belong common foreign and security policy, international environmental policy, development cooperation and economic, financial and...

Coming Lisbon Treaty into force has changed status of the European Union within international law. Agreeing with major expert opinion it has transformed an international organization of sui generis and a subject without internationally juridical subjectivity into unequivocally identified subject...