THE COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY ACCORDING TO THE LISBON TREATY
THE COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY ACCORDING TO THE LISBON TREATY

Summary/Abstract: We are trying to analyse inside this article the question of legal concordance between the principle of state sovereignty as the core of whole international law and some disposals from the Lisbon Treaty, regarding the common foreign and security policy and the common defence and security policy, as two specific fields of traditional state competences. Is EU a kind of entity of integration trying to question the state sovereignty? If so, states should say good bye to their Westphalian exclusive attributes in these two key-zones and work jointly to elaborate and to implement within EU institutional framework a common defence and a European foreign and security policy, meaning the transfer of sovereign attributes towards EU institutions. If Lisbon Treaty is in favour of this integrationist vision or if it rather maintains sovereign elements, this is the question to which this article is trying to answer.

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