The European Council held on 21-22 June 2007 managed to reach an agreement on the main questions which have divided the EU Member States throughout the debate on the treaty reform (constitutional debate). The hard work of the German EU Presidency paid off and it was able to hand over the Presidency to Portugal with a very detailed and precise mandate for the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC). The approved mandate preserves the substance of the Constitutional Treaty (CT). However, as the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker rightly stated, the June Summit agreed on “a simplified treaty which is very complicated”.

Click here for the CSC (now merged with CEC) report on the Treaty Reform.