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The aspirations with regard to the Lisbon Treaty in the above-mentioned excerpt from the ‘Declaration on Globalisation’ which the European Council adopted on 14 December 2007 seem to be modest when compared to what was expected from the European Union (the ‘Union’ or ‘EU’) as an external actor in the run-up to the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (the ‘Constitution’). Indeed, the Laeken Declaration envisaged developing “the Union into a stabilizing force and a model in the new, multipolar world”.2 Six years later, after the failure of the ratification of the Constitution, the role of the Lisbon Treaty (with regard to external relations) appears only to be to “bring increased consistency to [the] external action [of the Union]”.
Laeken Declaration on the Future of the European Union, annexed to the Presidency Conclusions of the European Council summit, 14–15 December 2001, section II.
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Wouters, J., Coppens, D., De Meester, B. (2008). The European Union’s External Relations after the Lisbon Treaty. In: Griller, S., Ziller, J. (eds) The Lisbon Treaty. Schriftenreihe der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Europaforschung (ECSA Austria) / European Community Studies Association of Austria Publication Series, vol 11. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-09429-7_7
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