CIAO DATE: 11/2010
October 2010
Centre for European Policy Studies
Less than a year has passed since the Lisbon Treaty became part of EU law, thereby bringing to an end almost a decade of intergovernmental wrangling over EU institutional reform. Yet despite its protracted ratification process and pledges from national administrations and EU authorities that the Lisbon Treaty had closed the issue of treaty reform for the foreseeable future, a number of modifications to the EU treaties are currently in the pipeline.
Resource link: How to Change the EU Treaties: An Overview of Revision Procedures under the Lisbon Treaty [PDF] - 335K