Maastricht Treaty

of the EU in 1973. This essay will showcase the treaties, institutions, cases, and acts that have eroded the sovereignty of the UK Parliament and will conclude that the development of the EU will only further reduce the power of Parliamentary Sovereignty as long as the United Kingdom stays a member of the EU. Britain has sacrificed power to treaties since the end of World War 2 in order for better relations with foreign countries, these treaties and others developed into what is now known as

it. European Law is very complex law , within EU law there is various different treaties which are in place. Two most significant treaties which have importance to the legislative process are The Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union. The Treaty on European Union also known as the Maastricht Treaty was signed in Maastricht 7th of February 1992 and the Treaty on the functioning of the

nature of the relationship between each of the above institutions and the nature of the relationship between the European union and the individual member states with regard to national sovereignty. The European Union was established by the Maastricht treaty in 1993. It provides an economic and political union between 28 European countries which makes its own policies in regards to the members’ societies, laws, economies and to a certain extent security. The European Union embodies the key principles

policies of Europe, visionaries saw the need for a common marketplace to bring the people of Europe closer together. This began with the Treaty of Rome in March of 1957. The aim of the treaty was to create a zoned marketplace, free of tariffs that would unite to the people of Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and Italy. The idea behind the treaty was that those living within the common marketplace zone would achieve a higher standard of living by combining their strengths and resources

On 13 December 2007, the European heads of government signed the Lisbon Treaty, which was designed to make the European Union (EU) “more democratic , more transparent and more efficient” (BBC) after twelve new members have been added in 2004 and 2007. Before the treaty could enter into force, it had to be ratified by all EU members. This essay will summarize the Lisbon Treaty and the governmental and democratic consequences it will have on the EU decision making. It intends to state that Europe

The European Union (EU) legislation has gone through evolution through many treaties in order to establish a better democratic legitimacy of its legislative procedure. It has been discussed that the core elements of democratic legitimacy can be found in two dimensions, the input-dimension and the output-dimension. The input-dimensions focuses more on citizens’ rights and possibilities for participation and contestation, and their right to elect their own representatives. Besides that, the input-dimension

The European Union (EU) is an economical and political union of nations, established in 1993, The predecessor to the European Union was the European Economic Community (EEC), which was formed soon after the second world war by the six countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Its initial rationale was that the previous two European wars had been due to economic competition between nations, and then this thus 'caused overly aggressive fear of the territorial aspirations

which was established under the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty (1951) and the General Court (GC) which was established in 1986. The General Court was originally referred to as the Court of First Instance however has since been renamed under the Lisbon Treaty (2009) as the GC in which cases can be appealed to the CJEU but only on points of law. The EU is only able to legislate on areas where it is empowered to by treaties for example on areas such as trade, competition, single market legislation

On February 7th 1992 the treaty of Maastricht introduced European citizenship. This finally defined what an ‘EU citizen ' is, most obviously in the amended Article 17 of the Treaty of Rome. This declared that in order for one to hold "citizenship of the Union", one must hold "nationality of a Member State". So anyone with nationality to a country within the European union is immediately granted European Citizenship. Consequently all nationals belonging to states joining the EU will also be automatically

and France would never get into another war again. In 1951, the Treaty of Paris was officially signed establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (European Commission). The countries of Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, West Germany, and Italy were the first countries to join. As these countries experienced economic success, they hoped to expand the Coal and Steel Community to something much more vast. In the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Economic Community was established