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The Evolutions and 'Federal' Prospects of EU through Treaties

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In May 2004, the European Union had a great enlargement up to 25 member states. Several months later, all Heads of national governments and states signed the Treaty establishing the Constitution of the Europe. The Constitution and its contents of figureing out the fundamental elements of a 'federal' EU state are the most controversial issues in political fora in Europe at European level as well as national level. In the beginning, EU was just a Community of Coal and Steel with six founder states. How could EU evolve so rapidly both in member enlargement and in deepening integration? And what is waiting for the EU in the future? This study argues, from neofunctionalist perspective, that the European integration would eventually result in a single European polity - more exactly - a federal Europe. Although neofunctionalism was sometimes discredited by the developments within the European Community but it enjoyed a resurgence of interest and support in the recent time due largely to the renewed momentum of European integration generated by some important treaty such as Maastricht treaty, Single European Market, Nice treaty and the most recently Constitution treaty (not in effect). There really are milestones for the evolvement of the EU and which would help people concerned to understand what has done and what would be done in the EU's operation and evolvement. This thesis would figure out those milestones by applying spillover effect concept (functional spillover and political spillover) of neofunctionalism to the significant treaties during over the fifty years of EU existence. The functional spillover had the effect on the evolvement in the treaties such as treaty of Paris, treaty of Rome and Single European Act. And political spillover had the effect on integration progress in treaty of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and the last one - Constitutional treaty. As the result of such great evolvements after a series of treaties, European Union is more and more becoming a ？federal？ state. But, before the Constitution treaty would be in effect European Union cannot be called a federal state as applying traditional political analyzation. Just only when the Constitution comes into effect, it would be really a federal state as many federalists in Europe hope.

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Table of Contents
Abstract = 4
Chapter 1: Introduction = 7
1.1 Objective = 7
1.2 Theories and Concepts = 7
1.3 Method of study = 9
1.4 Structure of thesis = 10
Chapter 2: Historical context and the establishment of the EU = 12
2.1The historical context = 12
2.1.1 The political status = 12
2.1.2 The Economic status = 14
2.2 The treaty of Paris with the establishment of ECSC and motivation of each state founder = 15
2.2.1 Motivation of 6 founder states to establish ECSC = 16
2.2.2 The contents of the ECSC treaty in policy and institution aspects = 17
Chapter 3: The evolution of EU through crucial treaties = 20
3.1 Treaties of Rome: EEC and EURATOM = 20
3.1.1 The policies changes in treaty of EEC = 20
3.1.2 The policies changes in treaty of EURATOM = 21
3.1.3 The institutions changes = 22
3.2 Single European Act (SEA) = 23
3.3 Treaty of Maastricht (TEU) = 24
3.3.1 The historical context = 24
3.3.2 The crucial changes in the Treaty = 27
3.4 Treaty of Amsterdam = 31
3.4.1 The historical context = 31
3.4.2 The changes of the Treaty = 32
3.5 Treaty of Nice = 38
3.5.1 The context of treaty = 38
3.5.2 The changes in institutions = 39
3.5.3 The changes in decision-making procedures = 41
3.5.4 The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union = 43
Chapter 4: the Treaty Establishing the Consitution in modeling The "Federal-State" EU = 46
4.1 Structure and brief contents of the Constitution = 46
4.1.1 The establishment and structure of Treaty = 46
4.1.2 The summary of the changes of the Treaty = 48
4.2 The institutional changes in the Constitution treaty provided the necessary constitutional basis for EU State = 48
4.2.1 The Constitution established symbols of a 'State' = 48
4.2.2 The Treaty provided new special institutions - the legal personality = 49
4.2.3 The QMV change in the EU institutions = 50
4.2.4 The representative change in the EU institutions = 50
4.2.5 The new procedure for approval and amendment of the Constitution = 51
4.3 The policy changes in Treaty establishing the Constitution = 53
4.3.1 The policy areas pillar one were widen and deepened by a new special 'mechanism' = 53
4.3.2 The policy changes in pillar two: CFSP = 55
4.3.3 Policy changes in pillar three according to the Charter of fundamental rights = 56
4.4 The EU 'federal' status = 58
4.4.1 EU 'federal' status with treaties in effect = 58
4.4.1 EU 'federal' status if the Constitution treaty comes to have effect = 59
Chapter 5: Conclusion = 60
References = 63

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