EPC Post Summit Analyses: A Midsummer Night’s Treaty

24 June 2007

“The German Presidency’s approach to the European Council which finally delivered a deal on EU treaty reform may have been unconventional”, the EPC states in its post summit analysis, “but the denouement in Brussels on 21-23 June had an all too familiar ring about it.”

“After two days of brinkmanship and high drama, EU leaders agreed a package of institutional reforms at the June summit that, despite the concessions made to the ‘minimalists’, will make the Union more effective. Their key challenge now is to explain and defend the agreement in public to show that they have learned the lessons of the past two years and prepare the ground not only for a smooth ratification process but also for a new phase in European integration.”

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