Abstract

FERREIRA, João de Menezes. At the shooting points of departure for the inevitable revision of the Lisbon Treaty: Who dares to open up all the matrioshkas?. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2011, n.32, pp.107-128. ISSN 1645-9199.

This paper argues that steps towards a Political Union dictated by major ambitions in terms of the Common Foreign and Security Policy continue to be, for various reasons, a mirage. And as Germany, at the pre-Lisbon Treaty discussions, as never shown willingness to change the balances from Maastricht regarding the Economic and Monetary Union, it was also not in that area that one would be expecting significant institutional progress. However, suddenly, coming from nowhere, the so-called sovereign debt crisis, in this last domain, will determine an inevitable revision of the European treaties.

Keywords : European crisis; Lisbon Treaty; European Union; Portugal.

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