What is my good buddy SOLANA up to, these days?
the new EU TREATY
1 January 2009............entry into force
1 January 2009
entry into force
SEE ALSO, the wiki article JAVIER SOLANA
he's in the CLUB OF ROME.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_TreatyNew impetus
In 2007, Germany took over the rotating EU Presidency and declared the period of reflection over. By March, the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, the Berlin Declaration was adopted by all member states. This declaration outlined the intention of all member states to agree on a new treaty in time for the 2009 Parliamentary elections, that is to have a ratified treaty before mid-2009.[2]
Already before the Berlin Declaration, the Amato Group (officially the Action Committee for European Democracy, ACED) – a group of European politicians, backed by the Barroso Commission with two representatives in the group – worked unofficially on rewriting the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (EU Constitution). On 4 June 2007 the group released their text in French – cut from 63,000 words in 448 articles in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe to 12,800 in 70 articles. In the Berlin Declaration, the EU leaders unofficially set a new timeline for the new treaty;
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21–23 June 2007
European Council meeting in Brussels, mandate for IGC
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23 July 2007
launch of Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) in Lisbon, text of Reform Treaty
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7–8 September 2007
Foreign Ministers’ meeting
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18–19 October 2007
European Council in Lisbon, final agreement on Reform Treaty
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13 December 2007
signing of the treaty in Lisbon
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by end of 2008
ratification by all member states
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1 January 2009
entry into force