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Over time, what we can define today as the European Union has gone through historical moments that marked nations, united and divided, destroyed and built, but each time the Union has managed to contribute to the fulfilment of the ideals which define it. From Paris to Lisbon it passed through Rome, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice - each of these places marking the emergence of a Treaty in the context of the need for a process of adaptation of Member States to the new changes that were taking place. The entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon imposed a change not only in terms of the vision on the future of the Union made of 28 states, but also a change of the legal and functional framework of its institutions - composition, competences, role, method of operation are aspects that needed changes in the context of the occurrence of situations such as the last wave of enlargement, not foreseen by other previous Treaties. This means that more than a decade after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, we will carry out a comparative analysis of the European Union's institutional system with a focus on those changes that mark the reform of each of the seven EU institutions. |
