Uniunea Europeană în lumina modificărilor aduse de tratatul de la Lisabona
The European Union in light of the alterations brought to the Treaty of Lisbon

Summary/Abstract: The Lisbon Treaty was signed on December 13, 2007 by the 27 EU Member States. Its entry into force on January 1, 2009 has been postponed until the Irish negative vote on December 1, 2009 when the Treaty was ratified by all Member States. With the entry into force of this Treaty, the EU has acquired legal personality and assumed the powers of the European Community. Therefore, Community law has become the European Union law. Community law is the expression used when referring to the period before the union right of entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. The European Union has changed. The number of Member States is now four times higher. Only in the last five years, their number has almost doubled. Europe is facing enormous challenges in this century, including the economic crisis, climate changes, sustainable development, energy security and international cross-border crimes. The Lisbon Treaty contains, at least theoretically, such changes aimed to raise the quality standard of the work of European institutions by simplifying, streamlining and ensuring greater transparency in EU decision making. Also these changes should lead to the elimination of existing democratic deficit union among citizens about institutions and decision-making procedure by those who till the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon was very complex and overly bureaucratized poorly understood by the ordinary citizen and not only.

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