The Reform of the Communitarian Institutions from the Perspective of the European Constitution
The Reform of the Communitarian Institutions from the Perspective of the European Constitution

Author(s): Nicolae Paun
Subject(s): EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Publishing Inc. European Readings & Prodifmultimedia/Editura Napoca Star
Summary/Abstract: Beyond the geo-cultural problems, the fact that the survival of the European Union depends on the institutional reform – in other words on the success of the European Convention – becomes more and more obvious. When it began, in May 2002, the European Convention seemed to be a political charade, an exaggerated luxury which, lacking something better, was accepted by the members of the European Union. Sensational turn of events; gaining general admiration, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing –the former president of France between 1974 and 1981 – won the fabulous moral bet of being able to present to the Intergovernmental Council from Thessaloniki (June 21-22, 2003) a project of European constitution which expressed in a very coherent manner the double nature, partially inter-state, partially federal, of the developing political Europe. Among the equilibrium that had to be found was the one between the presidency of the European Union and the presidency of the European Commission, the one between the states’ Europe and the peoples’ Europe; in these issues, d’Estaing got to the heart of the problem in a way in which he couldn’t do it 20 years before from the presidential office in Palais Elysée. The text is long and arid, but it is a very successful simplification of the previous treaties: Rome 1957, The Single European Act 1986, Maastricht 1992, Amsterdam 1997 and Nice 2000.

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