The Constitutional Concepts Of The Reform Treaty (The Lisbon Treaty)

The Lisbon Treaty also known as the Reform Treaty provides only an amendment of the treaties considered as \nfundamental, namely the Treaty on the European Union and the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union and is \nthe result of the constitutional process triggered by the Laeken Declaration adopted by the European Council. The Lisbon \nTreaty is still built on the content of the European Constitution from which they eliminated the most controversial \nprovisions, first of all the title of Constitution that might produce concern and panic among the European Union \npopulation through the symbolic power it contained, and for Romania this new treaty was the first it signed in quality of \na Union member state. Even if does not bear the name of European Constitution, the Lisbon Treaty is a European \nConstitution for the following reasons: first it is a Constitution because it gathers together most of the fundamental \nelements of the Constitutional Treaty, even if it does not have the structure or the name thereof, and second the treaties \nafter the Lisbon reform have become small constitutions from the operational viewpoint, they develop the functions of a \nconstitution, limit power and organize the operation of the organization.