EU CONSTITUTION
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is pressing for an end to national vetoes over changes to parts of the European Union's founding treaties as Member States prepare to launch, in Rome on October 4, the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) convened to approve the EU's first formal constitution.In a sense, this process will differ little from agreeing the Treaty of Rome and it's updates, such as the Treaties of Maastricht and Nice, which have all steadily increased the powers of EU institutions, confirming European law's supremacy over national legislation and ...
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