Progresses have been achieved mainly in the following aspects.Firstly,the EU and/or the Euro area have promulgated the "Six-Pack" to strengthen and improve the Stability and Growth Pact and adopted a "fiscal compact" in the form of international treaty instead of EU law to set up a permanent institution to rescue the debt-hit countries.Secondly,the EU has reinforced its supervision on the financial market to fill the institutional gaps discovered in the context of the debt crisis.Thirdly,the EU has adopted a number of regulations and directives to improve the construction of the Area of Freedom,Security and Justice.With respect to the case law,the European courts have delivered a number of judgments,the EU ETS case and the Microsoft case being the most influential.A Chinese firm named Xinan Chemical Industrial won the landmark case in the European Court of Justice. <<