Detailed view for this entity.

“Compared to the treaty of Nice in 2003, the Lisbon Treaty of 2009 strengthened the power of Berlin and Paris by altering decision-making mechanisms in a way that now favor larger populations and coalition building capacity.”

“And even the institutional structure built for this out of Lisbon is creating the dysfunction that we have now because the EAS so the HRVP reports to the commission president but the EAS is not in the commission.”