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| A NEA TREATY, A NEW BEGINNING (23.07.07) |
| (2007-07-23) |
| Last updated: 2007-07-24 14:50 EET |
The intergovernmental conference in charge with drafting the new Constitutional Treaty is underway in Brussels, with the foreign ministers from EU member states attending, under the presidency of European Commission Chief Jose Manuel Barroso. This meeting is taking place shortly after Portugal took over the rotating presidency of a 27 states European Union. In fact, the Conference has the mandate to examine the 200 pages draft of the new European Constitution and of its protocols, documents that were agreed upon at a political level, during last month’s EU summit held in Brussels.
We recall that at that summit, a difficult compromise was reached on some changes, such as setting up the position of EU High Foreign Policy chief and increased powers granted to the Parliament; also, the field area for which member states have veto rights was restricted by the double majority voting. The compromise set up the premises for the Treaty to be drafted and approved by all member states by mid 2009. The head of the European Parliament Commission for constitutional affairs, Jo Linen, has warned, however, that a new rejection of the Treaty by a member state would be explosive politically speaking; he called on such countries as Poland to avoid repeating France’s and The Netherlands’ mistake to block the constitutional reform.
As a EU member state, Romania supported the compromise solution adopted by Brussels underlining that it does not want to reopen important chapters of the Constitutional Treaty . In fact, Romania’s representatives at the summit had rather a technical mandate , taking into account that by the EU accession on January 1st 2007 , Romania has implicitly adopted the European Constitution. In spite of a current rather low interest in European debates in the Romanian society, it is expected that this fall Euro parliamentary elections rekindle this interest for topics of major importance, whose solution is rather in Brussels than in Bucharest.
Political analyst Cristian Parvulescu goes even farther, claiming that after the last EU summit , all member states have to deal only with internal negotiations:
“The intergovernmental conference will discuss only technical matters. Unfortunately, there will be no negotiation as there is little left to be negotiated. I say that because in fact, the European society will not be able to influence this process. However, I hope that a dialogue will still exist between the national governments and the national societies , so that something could be achieved, although the framework is really quite restricted.
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