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This paper aims to analyze the question of legal personality of European Union to show the interpretation of this current aspect. The EU's personality has been recognized progressively to the Member States & to the International Organizations. The legal personality is a kind of "added value," vested by an appropriate international rule ad hoc to recognize personality to all corporate bodies, which have got the typical features of the sovereignty: people & territory. Recent years have seen a new debate on the future of Europe. In 2001, after the Treaty of Nice, the European Council adopted the Declaration on the future of EU, committing the Union to becoming more democratic, transparent & effective. It agreed to draft the Treaty establishing a Constitution for the Europe. This was the basis for the text adopted in the 2004, signed in Rome by the Heads of State & Government of the Member States. The text set out the values of the EU. It put the Charter of Fundamental Rights at the heart of the EU law, strengthening the guarantee of civil & political rights for all European citizens. The draft Treaty gave personality to the EU enabling it to sign International Agreements. The Berlin Declaration of the 2007 had meant the symbol of a reunited Europe. In the end of 2007 had been signed the Treaty of Lisbon by the 27 Member States. Our reality, in a so rapid evolution, faces the globalization of the economics, the climatic changes, the demographic evolution, the safety & the energy: the Europeans must to learn to have confidence in EU. The Treaty of Lisbon has gone into effect in the end of 2009. Adapted from the source document.