EU Policies in the Lisbon Treaty: A Comparative Analysis

Gerda Falkner (ed.)

No 3, Working Papers of the Vienna Institute for European integration research (EIF) from Institute for European integration research (EIF)

Abstract: This paper presents a collaborative project by a team of members of the Institute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It compares five EU policy areas in the following dimensions: common objectives on supranational level, EU competences in the field, available policy instruments, decision-making procedures and institutional developments, and finally the importance of the Lisbon Treaty's coming into force (or, alternatively, its failure). One insight from the comparative approach is that the Lisbon Treaty outshines previous EU reforms in terms of introducing new (explicit) objectives, improved policy instruments, new (explicit) competences and room for decisions without unanimity requirement. The final chapters offer a cross-sectoral discussion of reform potentials and their practical limitations, based on tables with meta-level overviews. The policies discussed in detail cover energy, social, foreign, security & defence as well as justice & home affairs.

Keywords: Treaty on European Union; treaty reform; energy policy; social policy; CFSP/ESDP; CFSP/ESDP; CFSP/ESDP; CFSP/ESDP; CFSP/ESDP; security/internal; political science; unanimity; competences; joint decision making; policy analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12-15
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