I have just read the article Lisbon Council results: Two for the price of one? by Daniel Gros and Stefano Micossi.

The abstract of the article

he new ‘Lisbon Treaty’ agreed this weekend preserves most of the substance of the failed Constitution; it will serve the EU well. As usual, Europe has taken a step forward by creating a new disequilibrium; new Treaty revisions are likely to be proposed even before all the provisions of this present one have been implemented.

Four points about this paper which I found interesting:

• The High Representative will be a de facto Foreign Affairs Minister
• The two fundamental treaties to be amended by the Reform Treaty are the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, the latter will become the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union paving the way for a twofold structure of the founding treaties with one treaty with the character of a fundamental law and the second closer to mere implementing legislation
• The President of the Commission will be “[…] squeezed between his Vice President (who will also be foreign affairs minister and coordinator of the external policy) and the new President of the European Council […]”
• The European Union proceed by taking “a step forward by creating a new disequilibrium” which will need a new step forward to be solved

About the first two points I can say that I had already noticed them too, even if I went a little further asserting that the Treaty on European Union is already a de facto Constitution since 1992 (see here, here and here). Nevertheless I had not yet become aware of the other two points before I read this article.