Analyzing the Treaty of Nice

Ludlow, Peter and Ross, George and Philippart, Eric and Meunier, Sophie and Nicolaidis, Kalypso and de Burca, Grainne and de Witte, Bruno (2001) Analyzing the Treaty of Nice.

Abstract

[Introduction by Mark A. Pollack, series editor]. IN DECEMBER 2000, THE European Council met under the leadership of the French Presidency to complete the negotiation of the Treaty of Nice, which was intended to reform the institutions of the Union and prepare them for eventual enlargement to the candidate countries of the east and south. The conduct of the 2000 IGC has been chronicled in detail by Desmond Dinan and Sophie Vanhoonacker in the pages of ECSA Review (Dinan and Vanhoonacker 2000, 2001), and the Commission has made both the text of the Treaty and much of its preparatory documentation publicly available on the Europa Web site (European Commission 2001a, 2001b). In this expanded ECSA Review Forum, five ECSA members and two guest authors look back at the 2000 IGC, analyze the provisions of the Nice Treaty, and look forward to the post-Nice agenda, which has already begun with the launching of a new, "constitutional" debate on the future of the Union.