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The Treaty of Lisbon, in line with the failed Constitutional Treaty and in the sequence of several initiatives which had taken place, came to provide for the mechanism of permanent structured cooperation. The goal of this mechanism is to enable the arising of a vanguard of Member States, eventually ready to form the embryo of a future European Union's exclusive defence system. Although permanent structured cooperation represents a step towards the application of the "community method" to security and defence of the European Union, it doesn't still fit in that pattern. Only future can tell, if permanent structured cooperation is likely to provide the European Union with a security and defence policy based on the "community method".

The development of the European integration process involves a certain legal and constitutional profile of the Member States, whose practical consequences depend on the very profile of the Constitutions of those States. With regard to Portugal, it's Constitution has been subjected to several constitutional amendments which attended the issue of integration, to a greater or lesser degree, in advance or in development of Portugal's accession to the European Union; we proceed with some detail to the analysis of the fundamental changes carried out by the 6th and 7th constitutional amendments, the latest ones, which currently conform Portugal's Constitution with imperatives of European integration (the first considering the perspective of the eventual approval of the failed European Constitutional Treaty and the second allowing an adjustment of the Portuguese Constitution to certain circumstances arising from the integration process). In September 2010, a group of parliamentarians presented to the Parliament a proposal that would trigger the 8th constitutional amendment process, interrupted in March 2011 following the dissolution of the XI Legislature; the early outcome of this process does not obscure its theoretical importance, given the relevant reflections of the Provisional Committee for Constitutional Amendment, which justify a review intended to complement a current perspective of this subject.

Explora-se neste estudo a abordagem dos termos duma relação entre duas realidades, ambas cogitadas tendo como pano de fundo o processo de integração europeia, e para lidar com problemas advindos fundamentalmente das disparidades e discrepâncias entre os Estados-Membros da União Europeia. Trata-se, por um lado, da iniciativa de 1985 geradora do "Espaço Schengen" e, por outro lado, do mecanismo da cooperação reforçada criado em 1997. Dada a persistência daqueles mecanismos até à atualidade, visa-se deste modo contribuir para aquilatar dos termos, designadamente temporais, da verdadeira dimensão e relevância de fatores de afastamento significativos entre Estados-Membros da União Europeia