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How the EU Treaties are modified

Briefing 30-08-2022

With the Conference on the Future of Europe now at an end, a new phase has started: that of following up on the more than 320 recommendations it produced. This process is however a complicated one. Legally, ways to implement the Conference's recommendations may require changes to the European Union (EU) Treaties, which is a complex and challenging process. Politically, debating how to implement reforms and deciding to what extent to modify the EU legal system may require intense negotiations. The ...

This document presents the proposed amendments to the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The note outlines the relevant changes and provides a comparison between the current ESM Treaty and the proposed amended one. This note will be updated in light of relevant developments and it complements two separate EGOV briefings: The European Stability Mechanism: Main Features, Instruments and Accountability and the ESM Pandemic Crisis Support.

How EU Treaties are changed

Oversigt 20-09-2019

The EU's founding Treaties have been revised by the Member States in numerous rounds of reforms. Such Treaty revision is a way to ensure that EU primary law evolves, adapts, and responds to new developments and changing needs. The last comprehensive Treaty reform dates back to the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009. While another comprehensive Treaty change is not yet on the agenda, the recent debates on the 'Future of Europe' triggered a number of reform proposals, some of ...

As the only European Union institution elected directly, the European Parliament is at the heart of representative democracy, the foundation upon which the EU is built. Since its creation, the Parliament’s powers have evolved significantly, transforming it into a full-fledged legislative body and forum of discussion and engagement, whose influence is felt in virtually all areas of EU activity. This paper provides an overview of the European Parliament's main powers, demonstrating how they interact ...

This in-depth analysis, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, recalls the earlier debates linking the enlargement of the Union with the need to adapt its constitutional framework, and discusses whether further constitutional reforms, involving Treaty change or not, are necessary when a further enlargement of the Union will take place in the near future. It focuses on three ...

Although calls for reform of the EU have increased in recent years, in particular as a consequence of the various challenges the EU has faced, the UK's vote in June 2016 on its EU membership has accelerated this process. In this context, the main EU institutions have all contributed to the debate, while individual Member States or groups of Member States have also brought forward initiatives. The main positions are outlined in this 'at a glance' note.

Lissabontraktaten

EU-faktablade 01-06-2017

I dette faktablad gennemgås baggrunden for og de vigtigste bestemmelser i Lissabontraktaten. Formålet er at beskrive den historiske baggrund for denne seneste grundlæggende EU-tekst og at sammenholde den med de tidligere tekster. Der redegøres nærmere for de enkelte bestemmelser (med artikelhenvisninger) og deres konsekvenser for en række EU-politikker i de faktablade, der omhandler konkrete politikker og emner.

Den vigtigste udvikling i de første traktater vedrører skabelsen af Fællesskabets egne indtægter, styrkelsen af Parlamentets budgetbeføjelser, det direkte valg af Europa-Parlamentets medlemmer og oprettelsen af det europæiske monetære system. Ikrafttrædelsen af den europæiske fælles akt i 1986, som indebar en væsentlig ændring af Romtraktaten, styrkede den europæiske integration ved at skabe et stort indre marked.

Mellemstatslige beslutningsprocedurer

EU-faktablade 01-04-2017

Inden for den fælles udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitik og flere andre områder, såsom det forstærkede samarbejde, visse udnævnelser og revision af traktaterne, afviger beslutningsprocessen fra den, der er gældende efter den almindelige lovgivningsprocedure. Det dominerende træk på disse områder er et mere udpræget mellemstatsligt samarbejde. Problemerne i forbindelse med den offentlige gældskrise har forårsaget en øget anvendelse af sådanne beslutningstagningsmekanismer, navnlig i inden for rammerne ...

Citizens’ expectations of the European Union vary widely across policy areas. A Eurobarometer survey – Europeans in 2016: Perceptions and expectations, fight against terrorism and radicalisation – seeks to identify those areas in which EU citizens want to see the Union doing more. Having identified areas in which there is a gap between the EU’s current action and citizens’ expectations of the Union, the next step is to look at the potential – within the constraints of the EU legal foundations – for ...