Lisbon 2008: What was it, was did it mean, and why did it fail?
This lecture traces the history of the EU's development through its treaty structure from the Treaty of Rome to the Treaty of Nice, and spends a large portion of the lecture focusing on the Treaty of Lisbon, which the Irish electorate sought fit to reject on June 12, 2008.
This lecture will place Lisbon in context, and ask: where do we go from here? We'll wrap up with some introductory notes on trade and trade creation.