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Art 1 TEU - ✔✔The Union shall be founded on the present Treaty and on the Treaty
on the Functioning of the European Union(hereinafter referred to as "the Treaties").
Those two Treaties shall have the same legal value. The Union shall replace and
succeed the European Community.
the establishment of the EU and legal personality. There are only two EU treaties,
very important that there are not anymore!
Art 2 TEU - ✔✔The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity,
freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights,
including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to
the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance,
justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
Art 3 TEU - ✔✔"The Union shall offer its citizens an area of freedom, security and
justice without internal frontiers" - 3rd pillar
internal market, 1986 SEA: goods, persons, services, capital. A good portion of this
treaty deals with the market
"The Union shall establish an economic and monetary union whose currency is the
euro."
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, (Denmark and UK are the only 2 of EU15 who had an exemption to the euro and
threatened vetos and Maastricht wouldn't have ever been enforced if they didn't get
the exemption, Poland has a political exemption that's not official though and since
other countries weren't part of these negotiations their accession and transitional
agreements had to be compromised)
Art 7 TEU - ✔✔'suspension clause' Article 7 procedure: ensures that non-dem govs
can't take place in the EU. The procedure is in section 1 on how to enforce
compliance.
if the MS shows 'a serious and persistent breach by a Member State of the values
referred to in Article 2"
- Article 354 TFEU has voting procedure specifics for Art 7
Start with 1/3 of MS in a proposal, then you need one of the institutions by a
majority of 4/5, u need majority permission from the EP, then u determine a
breach/risk, then the Council lets the MS defend itself. Rule of law Poland and
Hungary 2020/21 saw this procedure
7 EU institutions - ✔✔- the European Parliament, (supranational)
- the European Council, (intergovernmental)
- the Council, (intergovernmental)
- the European Commission (hereinafter referred to as "the Commission"),
(supranational)
- the Court of Justice of the European Union, (supranational)
- the European Central Bank, (supranational) external financial body and powerful
- the Court of Auditors.
The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission shall be assisted by 2
committees in an advisory capacity. which 2? - ✔✔Economic and Social Committee
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