Lisbon Treaty changes for citizens

•      Emphasize the EU’s capacity to act through external coherence, internal policies, policy achievements for citizens and modern institutions.
  
•            Provide a stronger and a more consistent external voice for the European Union
  
•            Energy supply and promotion of energy efficiency, energy saving, and the development of new and renewable forms of energy.
  
•            Deal with cross border effects of public health, civil protection and support of cross-border activities in sport.
  
•            Set out a stable institutional system that make decisions to be taken quicker, more transparently, with better democratic control and with a strengthened respect for decisions. Citizens will have a better idea of who is responsible for what and why the European Union is taking action.
  

Thanks to these innovations the European Union will be able to have the possibility to implement its policies that aimed to guarantee economic growth and competitiveness, improving employment and social conditions, enhancing personal and collective security, promoting a better environment and better health conditions, developing cohesion and solidarity between Member States as well as scientific and technological progress.

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