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Institutional reforms – The principle of democracy: the European Parliament and the national parliaments – Bypassing unpleasant national debates by taking the European route – Reinforcement of protection of the subsidiarity principle: most valuable reform – Doubts on the effectiveness – Crucial weakness: creeping transfers of competences still possible

Winner: national parliaments or European Parliament? – Differences between Lisbon Treaty and Constitutional Treaty – Latent rivalry – Lisbon innovation – National parliaments now actors in the Union? – Early warning mechanism as solution of compromise – Dual system of the two protocols: yellow and orange cards – Review – Compliance – Interparliamentary co-operation – Complexity of COSAC's involvement – Link between proportionality and subsidiarity – Conception of representative democracy – Position of the Court of Justice

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The Lisbon Treaty: The Irish ‘No’.: Europe's New Realism: The Treaty of Lisbon *

The Lisbon Treaty: The Irish ‘No’.: National Parliaments and the Principle of Subsidiarity – Legal Options and Practical Limits

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The Lisbon Treaty: The Irish ‘No’.: Europe's New Realism: The Treaty of Lisbon *