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The new treaty would be based on the first and fourth parts of the Constitution, the rest of the Constitution's changes being achieved through amendments to the Treaty of Rome. [9] In the June 2007 European summit meeting, member states agreed to abandon the constitution and to amend the existing treaties, which would remain in force.
On 4 June 2007, the group released their text in French – cut from 63,000 words in 448 articles in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe to 12,800 words in 70 articles. [14] In the Berlin Declaration, the EU leaders unofficially set a new timeline for the new treaty:
The Convention on the Future of the European Union, [3] also known as the European Convention, was a body established by the European Council in December 2001 as a result of the Laeken Declaration. Inspired by the Philadelphia Convention that led to the adoption of the United States federal Constitution , its purpose was to produce a draft ...
The text of the European Constitution, as distributed to each French voter. President Jacques Chirac's decision to hold a referendum was thought in some part to have been influenced in part by the surprise announcement that the United Kingdom was to hold a vote of its own, though it was also widely commented that the expected easy victory would also be an expression of confidence in the President.
Some matters relating to the European Union that motivated the "No" vote were also not strictly connected to the provisions of the Constitution. The debate over the accession of Turkey to the European Union , as well as countries of Eastern Europe , led to fears of an increase in immigration, or an outsourcing of jobs to new member states.
The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed in Rome on 29 October 2004 by 53 senior political figures from the 25 member states of the European Union. [1] [2] [3] In most cases heads of state designated plenipotentiaries to sign the treaty, but some presidents also signed on behalf of states which were republics.
The European Union Bill 2004–2005 (Bill 45) was a bill of the United Kingdom Parliament which proposed to ratify the European Constitution and to incorporate it into the domestic law of the United Kingdom and to amend the European Communities Act 1972 to include it in the list of Treaties and hold a referendum throughout the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on whether to approve the proposed ...
The Copenhagen Declaration is a text agreed by the CSCE in June 1990 at Copenhagen. [1] [2] [3] It contains specific election-related commitments.[4]Yuri Reshetov, the head of the Soviet delegation dubbed it the new European constitution.