The Lisbon Treaty entered into force five years ago on 1 December.
Europolitics
talked to German political scientist Stefan Seidendorf, who has published extensively on the political consequences of the EU's constitutional framework.
Seidendorf has taught at the Universities of Mannheim in Germany and Strasbourg in France and is currently deputy director of the Deutsch-Französisches Institut in Ludwigsburg, Germany, heading its Europe Department.
How "great" a treaty is the Lisbon Treaty in your opinion? Some commentators claimed early on that…