Treaty of Lisbon (jan 1, 2007 – jan 1, 2009)

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CE/EC changes in UE

-Move from unanimity to qualified majority voting in at least 45 policy areas in the Council of Ministers
-Subsidiarity principle
-More powerful EP forming a bicameral legislature alongside the Council of Ministers
-Creation of a long-term President of the European Council and a High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

-The Treaty also made the Union's bill of rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, legally binding.
-The treaty gave member states the explicit legal right to leave the EU, and established a procedure by which to do so.

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