Treaties of EU

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Treaties of EU

• Students Names
• 1.Georgia Zalti2. Elizabeth Stavrou 3.Elena
  Nikolaou

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Introduction

• The EU member States are 27
• A treaty lay out
• EU objectives
• Controls for EU institutions
• Decisions made
• Relationship between the EU and its member
  countries
• The European Union is based on the rule of law

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European Union

• Established formally by the Maastricht Treaty
• 2002 Euro currency
• Enlargement of EU

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The European Coal and Steel Community

• Treaty was signed in Paris in 1951
• Community of France, Germany, Italy and the
  Benelux

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Treaty of Rome

• Signed in March 1957
• EEC and EURATOM
• Came into force on 1 January 1958

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What did the Treaty of Rome do

• Commission, Council of Ministers, European
  Parliament and European Court of Justice
• European government bodies

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Arguments for and against

• Arguments for
• Barriers to trade
• United peaceful Europe.
• European reconciliation and democracy
• Arguments Against
• Ignoring the cultural barriers
• The Treaty was fundamentally confused

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Treaty of Maastricht

• Signed On February 7, 1992
• Came into force on 1 November 1993
• Creates the European Union, which consists of
  three pillars
• It improved the Treaty of Rome
• Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the
  creation of the Euro.

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What did the Maastricht treaty do

• The Treaty advanced two broad processes
• The increase of integration and EU
  responsibilities
• The Treaty was seeking to strengthen the EU
  Parliament's power

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Arguments for and against

• Arguments For
• A structure that is capable of coping
• The process of closer integration through
  Monetary Union
• The British Government succeeded in including the
  principle of subsidiarity in the Treaty
• Arguments Against
• The increasing measures of the Treaty advanced a
  federalist model of European integration
• The focus on big issues like EMU distracted
  people from the expansion of EU control

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Treaty of Amsterdam

• It was approved by the European Council on 2nd of
  October 1997
• On 1st May 1999 it came into force
• Objectives
• Modify regulations of the Treaty of the European
  Union

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Arguments For and Against

• Arguments For
• Providing room for some countries to move faster
  
• It made enlargement possible
• UK in line with the social agreement of the
  Maastricht Treaty
• Arguments Against
• new flexibility created a two speed Europe

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The reform of the EU institutions

1. Improved competences of the European Parliament ,
   functions of the Court of Auditors , Economic and
   Social Committee and Committee of the Regions
2. Concept of closer cooperation was introduced in
   the Treaty of the European Union

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Treaty of Nice

• Signed on 26 February 2001
• Came into force on 1 February 2003
• Achieved the task that Amsterdam treaty failed to
  do

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European Constitution

• Signed on 29 October 2004 by the 25 EU countries
• Dutch and French rejected Constitutional Treaty
• Did not come into force

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The Treaty of Lisbon

• Signed by the EU countries on 13 December 2007
  and came into force on 1 December 2009
• Includes
• legal entity
• The three pillars
• A new rule

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No longer Constitution Treaty

• Modified the Maastricht Treaty (1992)
• Modified the Treaty of Rome (1957)

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How the EU work with Lisbon Treaty

• The commission one commission per member state
• Before and after the Treaty of Nice (2001)
• Stabilized European Council
• New decision making process
• European Parliament has more strengthen powers

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Conclusion

• The EU only takes action with the treaties
• The treaties Initiate the institutions of
  European Union
• Over the years the treaties have been improved by
  other treaties

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