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28/12/2010 THE BELGIAN PRESIDENCY OF THE EU A POST LISBON TREATY PRESIDENCY Marianne DONY President Institute for European Studies ULB THE BELGIAN PRESIDENCY AND THE LISBON TREATY The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force on 1 December 2009 implies many changes as concerns the presidency of the EU A kind of transitional period has been respected for the Spain’s Presidency beginning in January since Spain had had to prepare itself for a conventional Presidency in the event that the Treaty would

The founding treaties The Institutional Framework Treaty of Rome Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (“EEC Treaty”): signed in Rome on 25 March 1957/ entry into force January 1958 ( Purpose: embrace the whole economic relationships that may exist between MS. (eg agriculture, transportation, free movement of goods and people, etc.) in order to establish a Common Market (Means: promote the economic integration of national markets The EEC has evolved since 1957 through:

BRITAIN AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ____________________________________________________________ ____________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________ At the end of the Second World War, Europe was devastated. Almost immediately the leaders of the countries of Western Europe began to consider ways of drawing together in order to provide greater security against threats of attack. By 1957 these ideas had taken the form of the EEC. The European

difference between the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and the Court of Human Rights? 4) What are your personal impressions after visiting the Council of Europe and attending the Parliamentary session? (200 words) 1. The Council was set up to defend human rights, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law, develop continent-wide agreements to standardize member countries' social and legal practices, and promote awareness of a European identity based on shared values and cutting

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in terms of people, land and number of countries. 25 countries have joined this zone of peace, prosperity, and stability called the European Union. The security of all the citizens will be improved. But in which context ? Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia which are Central plus Malta and Cyprus became European Union members the 1st May 2004. This enlargement is first of all an answer to a political threat. Indeed, theses countries of Central and

the beginning of the European Union. Here are the main and which evolution they permitted. Between the 50’s and the middle of the 70’s, 3 major treaties have been signed. The ECSC Treaty which was signed in 1951, it brought bases for the future EU. Its aim was to create a common market for the strategic commodities of the time. The EEC Treaty, known as the Treaty of Rome signed in 1957. Its aim was to create a common market, primarily by establishing a customs union between the member states

state and government conference, in Paris. Since what, the European environmental policy has progressively involved, from minimal and thematic legislations to a global and integrated strategy. The Treaty of Amsterdam has reinforced the importance of environmental policy in the European Union, and especially the notion of sustained development. In 1986, the Single Act stated the basis and principles by integrating to the Treaty of the European Economic Community a seventh title: “the Environment”, and

The European Union and Russia Talking about Russia in 1949 De Gaulle said « I say that it is necessary to make Europe with for base an agreement between French people and Germans… once Europe was made on these bases… then we can turn to Russia. Then we can try , good time at all, to make whole Europe with Russia also, she had to change its political system. Here is the program of the real Europeans, here is mine” We can remind ourselves that during the cold war, clamped between the United States