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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
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At 5 O’Clock this morning, Angela Merkel announced to the press that the EU leaders had reached a deal on a mandate for the IGC, expected to begin in July, to agree the text of a new treaty to replace the Constitutional Treaty. Dr. Merkel announced “much of the substance [of the Constitutional Treaty] has been maintained”. |
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
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Update:
Unbelievably, the British delegation at the EU summit has acceded to Sarkozy’s hack job on Europe’s competition commitments:
Reuters reports: As a result of this morning’s meeting, clarification is emerging on this issue. People are now much more reassured across the board,” Blair’s official spokesman told reporters. There were 13 other references to free market competition in existing EU treaties so the legal basis for the European Commission’s regulatory powers would not be changed, he said.
Sorry, this is the thin end of a very large wedge and a very worrying development indeed.
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Reuters is reporting that Tony Blair is currently meeting with President Sarkozy to press him on his extraordinary move to delete references to competition in the “Reform Treaty” currently under negotiation.
A spokesman for the British Prime Minister is quoted as saying: “The prime minister is talking to President Sarkozy at the moment about it … We have to have a situation where there is clarity over the EU’s attitude to competition.” Reuters |
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
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In a bizarre and disturbing development in last night’s EU Treaty talks, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has managed to secure the dropping of a commitment to “free and undistorted” competition as one of the EU’s stated aims – a reference which has been included in every treaty since 1957. This is apparently in reaction to analysis of the French “No” vote on the Treaty in 2005, which underlined voters’ hostility about the supposed neo-liberal economics enshrined in the document. |
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
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Negotiations between EU leaders on the so-called “Reform Treaty” (Constitutional Treaty to you and me) chaired by German Chancellor Angela Merkel continued until nearly midnight last night as Poland and the UK dug their heels in on a number of key issues. The Polish negotiating team is considering alternatives to its preferred voting system based on the square root of member states’ populations rather than that in the rejected Treaty which favours bigger states like Germany. Polish President Lech Kaczynsky told reporters he was “not an optimist” regarding the outcome as reported in EU Observer . |
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
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A masterclass in subverting parliamentary democracy and the will of the people, this is a leaked draft framework for the IGC on the Constitutional Treaty, beginning in July, to be agreed at tomorrow’s Berlin summit. |
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The Lisbon Treaty 
