Tratatul de la Lisabona – un nou pas în crearea unei Europe unite?
The Treaty of Lisbon – a new step towards the creation of a united Europe?

Summary/Abstract: Once the number of EU Members increased from 15 to 25 and then to 27, the Community institutions, procedures and mechanisms, conceived for a certain European configuration, proved to be too „narrow”, rigid and constraining for the new profile of the European construction. The Lisbon Treaty (2009), apart from its „labyrinthine” nature, represents a reference moment in simplifying and reorganizing the institutional architecture of the European Union. However, the delimitation and definition of the competences at the level of the new „rectangle” institutional structure appears to be still not enough clarified. The present article intends to identify some of the overlappings, parallelisms and incoherencies that may be identified in EU’s functioning mechanisms, especially at the level of the newly created positions (President of the European Council and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy).

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