ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses the Single European Act - Arts 18 and 95 on the internal market, the changes to the voting procedures in the Council and the powers of the European Parliament. It then focuses on the Maastricht Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union, the Treaty of Nice, the Treaty of Lisbon, the Inter-Governmental Fiscal Treaty. The legal implications leading up to the completion of the internal market, the important cases on the freedoms associated with the European Union (EU) and the Lisbon Treaty. The Maastrict Treaty and the Treaty of Amsterdam plus the introduction of a single currency (the euro) both played a part in the next stage in the development of the EU. Then it focuses on the institutional issues that form an important part of the Treaty of Nice and which are the bases of current EU institutional practices as consolidated in the Lisbon Treaty.
