| List of boxes | p. xii |
| Foreword | p. xiv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
| Table of cases | p. xvii |
| List of abbreviations | p. xxi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The origins and birth of the Lisbon Treaty | p. 7 |
| The process that led to the establishment of the European Union | p. 7 |
| The 2002-2003 European Convention and the 2004 Constitutional Treaty and its failed ratification | p. 15 |
| From the Constitutional Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty | p. 25 |
| The difficult ratification of the Lisbon Treaty | p. 49 |
| The structure of the Lisbon Treaty | p. 63 |
| General provisions | p. 71 |
| Values and objectives | p. 71 |
| Delimitation and clarification of the EU competences | p. 74 |
| Basic principles | p. 78 |
| The legal personality of the EU | p. 86 |
| Variable geometry | p. 89 |
| Legislative and non-legislative procedures and Acts | p. 92 |
| Procedures for the revision of the Treaties | p. 104 |
| Withdrawal of a Member State from the EU | p. 109 |
| Democracy | p. 112 |
| The European Parliament | p. 114 |
| The national parliaments | p. 122 |
| The citizens' initiative and other possibilities for citizens to influence decisions of the EU | p. 133 |
| The judgment of 30 June 2009 of the German Constitutional Court and the issue of the democratic legitimacy of the EU | p. 141 |
| Fundamental Rights | p. 146 |
| The origins of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights | p. 146 |
| The Charter of Fundamental Rights are referred to in the Lisbon Treaty | p. 148 |
| The Protocol on the application of the Charter to Poland and the United Kingdom | p. 160 |
| The accession of the EU to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms | p. 163 |
| Freedom, Security and Justice | p. 167 |
| A short history of Justice and Home Affairs in the EU | p. 167 |
| The abolition of the third pillar and the other changes made by the Lisbon Treaty | p. 177 |
| Variable geometry in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice | p. 192 |
| Institutions | p. 204 |
| The European Council | p. 205 |
| The Council | p. 209 |
| The Commission | p. 225 |
| The Court of Justice | p. 230 |
| Changes to other institutions and bodies | p. 234 |
| Relations between institutions and the interinstitutional balance | p. 235 |
| External affairs | p. 238 |
| External affairs before the Lisbon Treaty | p. 238 |
| The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy | p. 243 |
| The European External Action Service | p. 249 |
| The Common Foreign and Security Policy | p. 256 |
| Security and Defence | p. 265 |
| Other sectors of external affairs, including trade policy | p. 279 |
| Financial, economic, social and other internal affairs | p. 288 |
| The EU budget | p. 288 |
| European monetary union and the euro zone | p. 301 |
| The internal market and free competition | p. 307 |
| Social policy | p. 309 |
| Services of general interest | p. 313 |
| Agriculture, energy, health and other internal affairs | p. 316 |
| Conclusion: the Lisbon Treaty and beyond | p. 324 |
| Appendixes | |
| The judgment of 30 June 2009 of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the Lisbon Treaty | p. 341 |
| The judgment of 26 November 2008 of the Czech Constitutional Court on the Lisbon Treaty | p. 359 |
| List of provisions on a simplified revision procedure and of passerelles | p. 361 |
| Existing legal bases switched to the ordinary legislative procedure (codecision) | p. 365 |
| New legal bases | p. 369 |
| List of Articles in the TEU and in the TFEU which enable the European Council to take decisions having legal effects | p. 379 |
| Existing legal bases switched from unanimity to qualified majority voting | p. 383 |
| Pre-existing legal bases where unanimity, common accord or consensus continues to apply | p. 386 |
| References | p. 398 |
| Index | p. 404 |
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