The European Convention

Sciences politiques | 3 pages | 05-03-2006 | Format : | Note : Non noté

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Résumé

In December 2001, the fifteen European leaders, gathered in Laeken, agreed to set a Convention on the future of Europe. According to their own words, Europe was at a crossroads and needed change, in order to become more democratic, more transparent and more efficient. The Convention was to address four questions: the delimitation of competence between the EU and the member states; the status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights; a simplification of the treaties; the role of national parliaments in the European architecture.

Other issues were also on the agenda, such as foreign and defence policy, police and criminal law cooperation and qualified majority voting. The Convention would draw up a final document in preparation for the 2004 IGC: according to the Laeken declaration, a Constitution was only something for the remote future. The Convention would meet in Brussels, all its discussions and official documents would be in the public domain. The leaders agreed on the former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as chairman of the Convention. Giscard was seventy-six at the ...

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