Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History Faculty Scholarship 2013 Supranational? Federal? Intergovernmental? The Governmental Structure of the European Union After the Treaty of Lisbon Roger J. Goebel Fordham University School of Law,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, European Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Roger J. Goebel, Supranational? Federal? Intergovernmental? The Governmental Structure of the European Union After the Treaty of Lisbon, 20 Colum. J. Eur. L. 77 (2013) Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/577 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SUPRANATIONAL? FEDERAL? INTERGOVERNMENTAL? THE GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AFTER THE TREATY OF LISBON Roger J. Goebel The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the progressive augmentation of the supranationalcharacter of the governmental structure of the initial EEC, gradually evolving into the present European Union, particularlyas a consequence of revisions to the constituent Treaties. Part I of this article presents the European Commission, the initial institution whose structure and operations have always been markedly supranationalin character and which has always been dedicated to the promotion of supranational goals. Part II examines the Council of Ministers, the political institution that is intrinsicaly intergovernmental in character,but whose operational role in the adoption of legislation and policies took on significant supranationalfeatures in the late 1980s.