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| A TREATY FOR EUROPE 02/12/2009 |
| (2009-12-02) |
| Last updated: 2009-12-03 13:51 EET |
The Lisbon Treaty is designed to solve the EU’s institutional problem for the near future, which will enable it to focus on the management of the economic and financial crisis. By virtue of the Treaty, the European Union has already elected Belgian Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Council and British Catherine Ashton as EU Foreign Policy Chief. The permanent president of the European Council replaces the present half-yearly presidency, but only at leaders’ level, while the EU foreign policy chief with extended powers will provide the permanent presidency of EU foreign ministers’ meetings.
On the one hand, the Lisbon Treaty lends the European Parliament more decision-making powers and on the other, it increases the role of EU citizens, who will have the opportunity of influencing legislative proposals. Our correspondent in Brussels, Luminita Apostol reports:
“The European Parliament will be given extended powers under the new Treaty, which means that it will take part in decision-making jointly with the Council of the EU member states, in most European policies, including agriculture, justice and internal affairs and budget issues. Another innovation is the increase in the number of areas where the Council will make decisions with the qualified majority of the member states and not unanimously as it had done so far, which will hopefully make the Union’s activity more efficient. The Treaty gives coercive legal power to the European Charter of Human Rights in the member states, except for Great Britain, Poland and the Czech Republic, gives the citizens the possibility to call on the European Commission to work out guide-lines in a certain domain, if their petition gathers one million signatures and also leaves open the possibility for a member country to withdraw from the Union, in certain negotiable terms”.
The Lisbon Treaty is the first one to be negotiated and signed by Romania as an EU member state, after its accession on January 1st 2007. Bucharest believes that the innovations laid down in the Treaty, both at institutional level and in terms of European policies will allow for the Union to be redimensioned internationally and for a more efficient approach to issues of interest such as climate change, the economic crisis or energy.
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