AZ EURÓPAI UNIÓ „ALKOTMÁNYOZÓ” KORMÁNYKÖZI KONFERENCIÁI
Analysis of the Constitutional Integovernmental Conferences of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to present the major events, procedures and negotiations of the In tergovernmental Conferences (IGC’s) of the EU from 2003 to 2007, which had the mandate to constitute a new Treaty making the EU more effi cient and hopefully democratic also with 27 or more members. The IGC’s had different types of methods and various detailed mandates, but the result somehow was the same: after long years of negotiations and a hardly found consensus at the high political level, the citizens three times (France, and the Netherlands in 2005, Ireland in 2008) stopped the ratifi cation process of the new Treaty with a ”no” referendum. So, can we raise again the old question, namely is the EU still an elite project with sharp interests, which is working against a real and credible compromise, despite every effort (new methods of negotiations with questionnaires, official documents put on the European Union website, open the doors to the public, etc.) put to the windows?

• Details
• Contents