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Three pillars of the European Union - Origin of the three pillars structure | | Three pillars of the European Union - Origin of the three pillars structure: Encyclopedia II - Three pillars of the European Union - Origin of the three pillars structure | | The pillar structure had its historical origins in the negotiations leading up to the Maastricht treaty. It was desired to add powers to the Community in the areas of foreign policy, security and defence policy, asylum and immigration policy, criminal co-operation, and judicial co-operation.
However, some member-states opposed the addition of these powers to the Community on the grounds that they were too sensitive to national sovereignty for the community method to be used, and that these matters were better handled intergovernmental ...
See also:Three pillars of the European Union, Three pillars of the European Union - The three pillars, Three pillars of the European Union - Origin of the three pillars structure, Three pillars of the European Union - Abolition of the pillar structure | | | Three pillars of the European Union, Three pillars of the European Union - Abolition of the pillar structure, Three pillars of the European Union - Origin of the three pillars structure, Three pillars of the European Union - The three pillars | | |
| | | Three pillars of the European Union: Encyclopedia II - Three pillars of the European Union - Origin of the three pillars structure
Three pillars of the European Union - Origin of the three pillars structure
The pillar structure had its historical origins in the negotiations leading up to the Maastricht treaty. It was desired to add powers to the Community in the areas of foreign policy, security and defence policy, asylum and immigration policy, criminal co-operation, and judicial co-operation.
However, some member-states opposed the addition of these powers to the Community on the grounds that they were too sensitive to national sovereignty for the community method to be used, and that these matters were better handled intergovernmentally. To the extent that at that time the Community dealt with these matters at all, they were being handled intergovernmentally, principally in European Political Cooperation (EPC).
As a result, these additional matters were not included in the European Community; but were tacked on externally to the European Community in the form of two additional 'pillars'. The first additional pillar (Common Foreign and Security Policy, CFSP) dealt with foreign policy, security and defence issues, while the second additional pillar (JHA, Justice and Home Affairs), dealt with the remainder.
Recent amendments in the treaty of Amsterdam and the treaty of Nice have made the additional pillars increasingly supranational. Most important among these has been the transfer of policy on asylum, migration and judicial co-operation in civil matters to the Community pillar, effected by the Amsterdam treaty. Thus the third pillar has been renamed Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters, or PJCC. The term Justice and Home Affairs is still used to cover both the third pillar and the transferred areas.
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