Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 173.

Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 173.

Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community (Rome, 25 March 1957).

Constitutional change on this scale would normally require a new European treaty.

It was reaffirmed within the treaty admitting Finland to the European Union.

Treaty Establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (Paris, 18 April 1951).

That was the purpose of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which established the European Union.

Russia s initiative for a pan European security treaty should be the new operating system.

They are, as listed in Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the Court of Auditors.

Paris The European Union s Lisbon treaty was initially greeted with enthusiasm, pride, and even hubris.

We encounter obstacles such as the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty in two referendums.

The most depressing illustration of this has been the handling of the European Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty, and the totally unedifying means by which the European president, a key part of the Lisbon Treaty, is being selected.

The European Community also declared that the Convention would apply, with regard to the competence of the Community, to the territories in which the Treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the Amsterdam Treaty, was applied and under the conditions laid down in that Treaty, in particular its article 299.

Under the Treaty of Rome, Ukraine, as a European country, qualifies as a potential EU member.

The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, represented a noble and ambitious departure in European history.

It bears repeating that the Lisbon treaty constitutes real, if modest, progress for the European project.

The 1992 treaty aims to protect the European archaeological heritage as a source of European collective memory and as an instrument for historical and scientific study.

Article 125 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union expressly forbids the mutualization of debt.

In Europe, the Vatican lobbied for acknowledgement of God in the preamble to the proposed European Constitutional Treaty.

Indeed there was a legal obligation on member States under European Treaty rules not to breach Community law.

The European constitution has failed, the Lisbon reform treaty is in limbo after the Irish rejected it, and stronger European economic governance is blocked by German French disunity.

The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a patent law multilateral treaty concluded on 1 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States and the European Patent Organisation (an intergovernmental organization).

Moreover, at their pre Christmas summit, European heads of state agreed to amend the EU treaty by legitimizing the European Financial Stability Mechanism, now called the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), and making it a permanent institution.

On October 29, leaders of the European Union will gather in Rome to sign the Union's new Constitutional Treaty.

The introduction of a common European currency was successful political integration by means of a constitutional treaty a failure.

When the European Council opened the way for Turkish membership in 1999, it fully took into account the establishment of the European (political) Union by the Maastricht Treaty years earlier.

Handling of French legal cases concerning human rights before the European Commission of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights and the treaty monitoring committees of the United Nations.

The rejection of the European Union s Constitution by French and Dutch voters forces us to think well beyond that treaty.

European and international supervision of nuclear material is made by the EU Commission and the IAEA (Euratom Treaty, INFCIRC 193).

In addition, the Constitutional Treaty gives citizens the right to ask the European Commission to take action on a specific point.

As the Lisbon Treaty comes into force, the European Union is, I believe, uniquely suited to take on its leadership responsibilities.

At the European Union s coming EU summit, debate will center on whether to go forward with a mini EU Constitutional Treaty.

Indeed, with two thirds of member states and a majority of European citizens supporting the Treaty, it cannot simply be abandoned.

At a European level, the provisions of the draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union institutionally strengthen equality, which is generally conceived as a value of the Union, while, more specifically, the promotion of gender equality remains one of the Union's aims as has already been established in the Amsterdam Treaty.

Nor can they be considered the first tentative steps towards such a shared destiny, in the manner of the 1952 European Coal and Steel Community Treaty, which began the project for European unity.

Many citizens of France s 24 partners in the European Union, or of states that aspire to enter the EU soon, are angry indeed, indignant at France s rejection of the European Union s constitutional treaty.

Terrorism in London and the French and Dutch rejections of the European Union s Constitutional Treaty have brought Euro pessimism back into fashion.

But a treaty change would require engaging the European public and, in several member states, submitting the proposed revisions to popular referenda.

While such a move is out of the question it would require a change in the European Treaty the noise is unhealthy.

A better analogy for the No vote was the rejection in 1954 of the treaty to establish a European Defense Community (EDC).

The principle was at the heart of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in the Treaty of Paris (1951), following the Schuman Declaration and the later the Treaties of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC).

PARIS In 2005, two founding members of the European Union, France and the Netherlands, rejected by popular referendum the EU s proposed constitutional treaty.

BRUSSELS In 2005, France and the Netherlands both voted no to a constitutional treaty for the European Union, derailing years of integration efforts.

We need final and complete ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in order to have the institutionally and internationally stronger European Union we need.

These Territories have been included in the Treaty establishing the European Community since the accession of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1973.