Documents EU intergovernmental conferences 25 results

"Avant même un élargissement qui ne fera qu'accroître les différences, l'Union européenne, à l'occasion des travaux de la Conférence intergouvernementale (CIG) d'octobre 2003, est réapparue très hétérogène. Que l'on considère le respect des règles budgétaires imposées par le Pacte de stabilité et de croissance ou les conséquences de la politique monétaire commune au sein de la zone euro, les intérêts stratégiques et les situations macroéconomiques, des « grands » et des « petits » pays sont, pour des raison structurelles, divergents. Dans une Europe élargie, au sein de laquelle le poids des « petits » États va augmenter, l'adoption d'une gestion macroéconomique différencié s'impose de plus en plus comme une nécessité."

"The Constitution for the European Union adopted in June 2004 contains a variety of articles that relate to equality. These provisions are scattered across the different parts of the Constitution and equality emerges as simultaneously a value, an objective, a fundamental right, a positive duty and a legal competence. This article examines these multiple reference points in the light of three underlying themes. First, there is an analysis of the concepts of formal equal treatment and substantive equality. Secondly, the balance between negative duties to refrain from discrimination and positive duties to promote equality are considered. Finally, the challenge of ensuring equal protection whilst respecting and accommodating diversity is explored."

"This book analyses the EU's Constitutional Treaty, which emerged in draft form from the European Convention in the summer of 2003 and which was finalised by an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) in June 2004. It describes the main novelties of the treaty and looks at policies of important actors, Member States and Community actors (the Commission and European Parliament) and the roles played by the Convention and the Italian and Irish Presidencies during the process of deliberation and negotiation that produced the treaty. It further studies the failure of ratification in France and the Netherlands and the implications for the process of European integration of this failure. It finally touches on the question whether a constitutional equilibrium has been reached.
Since the new Lisbon Treaty negotiated in 2007 contains much of what was in the Constitutional Treaty the analyses of the book remain pertinent for this latest EU treaty. "