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- - - - Treaty of Nice
        
        Constitutional treaty
        
        Lisbon Treaty
        
        all constitutional aspects dropped out
        
        made treaty more acceptable to citizens
        
        no pillar structure anymore
        
        the common foreign and security policy - remained intergovernmental
        
        the JHA
        
        mostly supranational
        
        an EU-wide arrest warrant - joint investigation teams
        
        3 types of Union competencies
        
        Exclusive
        
        Shared
        
        Supporting
        
        Europe External action Service created
        
        new post of the president of the European Council
        
        roles of national parliament increased
        
        2001: Covention on the future of Europe
        
        draw a draft of Constitution for Europe
        
        the recommendation were mostly modest
        
        the CT signed in Oct 2004
        
        a single treaty to replace all previous treaties
        
        448 articles, 36 protocoles, 2 annexes and 50 declarations
        
        modest changes and great symbolic significance
        
        'constitution', EU anthem and flag
        
        attracted more political attention than earlier treaties
        
        2005
        
        failed referendums in Fr and the Neth
        
        strong political opposition to the govts
        
        insecurities arising from the 2004 enlargement
        
        institutional issues
        
        preparing for EU's enlargement
        
        the Commission - 1 member from each member state
        
        Council of Ministers
        
        further extension of the use of QMV
      - a modernizing and consolidating treaty
      - multi-speed Europe - closer co-op bw. countries wanting to forge ahead on certain issues
      - a number of JHA policy (3rd pillar) areas were trasferred to the EC (1st pillar)
      - 'an area of freedom, security and justice' in which there would be free movement of persons behind a common externam border
      - external relations
      - a new post of CFSP High Representative
      - Eu military/civilian missions: humanitarian and rescue tasks, peacekeeping tasks and tasks of combat force in crisis management
    - - the full benefits of the internal market would only be realized if there is also Economic and Monetary Union
      - the need for a social dimension to soften some of the implications of the SEM
      - no border controls (Schengen Agreement) 1985
        
        Cross-boarder crime, mass migration, international terrorism
    - - collapse of communism in CCE
      - unification of Germany
      - break-up of Soviet Union
    - - 1st pillar
        
        European Community
        
        Customs Union
        
        supranational pillar
        
        Internal Market
        
        Common Agricultural Policy
        
        Trade Policy
        
        Environmental Policy
        
        Economic and Monetary Union
      - 2nd pillar
        
        Common Foreign and Security Policy
        
        the EU and its member states 'shall define and implement a common foreign and security policy' including 'the eventual framing of a common defense policy which might in time lead to a common defense'
        
        intergovernmental coop
      - 3rd pillar
        
        Cooperation in Justice and Home affairs
        
        asylum and immigration policy
        
        the crossing of the external borders
        
        Judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
        
        police coop
        
        EU-wide policy intelligence office
        
        intergov coop
  - - - gained more rights