Designing the European Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: On the Study of EU Treaties and Treaty Reforms

   • Finn Laursen

   Pages 1-15

3. The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and European Defence Community (EDC) Treaties

   • Iris Glockner, Berthold Rittberger

   Pages 16-47

4. All Roads Lead to Rome: Background, Content and Legacy of the Treaties on the European Economic and European Atomic Energy Communities

   • Joaquín Roy

   Pages 48-76

5. The 1965 Merger Treaty: The First Reform of the Founding European Community Treaties

   • Finn Laursen

   Pages 77-97

6. The 1970 and 1975 Budget Treaties: Enhancing the Democratic Architecture of the Community

   • Ann-Christina L. Knudsen

   Pages 98-123

7. The Single European Act: Revitalising European Integration

   • Desmond Dinan

   Pages 124-146

8. The Treaty of Maastricht: Designing the European Union

   • Colette Mazzucelli

   Pages 147-179

9. The Amsterdam Treaty: Modest Reforms

   • Sophie Vanhoonacker

   Pages 180-195

10. The Treaty of Nice: The Inadequate Preparation of Enlargement

    • Finn Laursen

    Pages 196-216

11. The Constitutional Treaty: The Failed Formal Constitutionalisation

    • Derek Beach

    Pages 217-243

12. The Treaty of Lisbon: Constitutional Treaty, Episode II

    • Jacques Ziller

    Pages 244-268

13. Conclusions: So What do we Know about EU Treaties and their Reforms? And Where May we be Going?

    • Finn Laursen

    Pages 269-282

14. Back Matter

    Pages 283-317

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This book outlines the content of the main treaties that form the 'constitutional' basis of the European Union and analyses changes in these over time. The EU has expanded its policy scope and taken in many more members transferring powers to common supranational institutions in a way seen nowhere else in the world.

• budget
• constitution
• desegregation
• Europe
• European Integration
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• Institution
• Policy
• reform
• reforms
• european union politics

• EU Centre of Excellence (EUCE), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

  Finn Laursen

FINN LAURSEN is Canada Research Chair in European Union Studies, Director of EU Centre of Excellence (EUCE) and Professor of Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.

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