Prof. Dr.

Hartmut Aden HWR Berlin

Summer School Institutions and Law in the EU (ILEU) - How Europe
works – European Governance

The aEU’s Post-Lisbon institutions in the TEU

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1) The EU has the following institutions, listed in Article ____ TEU:

According to Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union, the institutional

framework comprises seven institutions:
 the European Parliament
 the European Council
 the Council of the European Union (simply called ‘the Council’)
 the European Commission
 the Court of Justice of the European Union
 the European Central Bank
 the Court of Auditors.

2) According to Article ____ TEU, the European Council consists of

The European Council is made up of the heads of state or government of
all EU countries, the European Council President, and the European
Commission President. 
The European Council’s role is to provide the impetus, general political
directions and priorities for the EU’s development (Article 15 of the Treaty on
European Union — TEU), including:
 identifying the EU’s strategic interests and objectives related to the EU
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and to other areas of EU
external action (Articles 22 and 26 TEU);
 adopting broad guidelines on the economic policies of the Member
States and of the EU (Article 121 of the Treaty on the Functioning of
the EU — TFEU) or considering the employment situation in the EU
(Article 148);
 determining the existence of a serious and persistent breach by a
Member State of the values of the EU (Article 7(2) TEU).

3) According to Article _____ TEU, the Council consists of

The Council of the European Union is made up of EU government ministers who meet
to discuss, amend and adopt laws.
4) What is the role of national parliaments for European integration defined in
the TEU?

European integration is the catch-all term for cooperation between

European countries, usually but not exclusively referring to EU member
states. More integration implies greater shared decision-making, shared laws,
and shared legal and political systems.

From a strategic perspective on legislative behavior, the article

conceptualizes five roles for national MPs in EU politics: Scrutinizers,
Subsidiarity Watchdogs, Networkers, Communicators and Transposers