Evaluation of the Lisbon Treaty's Ratification Process
Evaluation of the Lisbon Treaty's Ratification Process

Summary/Abstract: The European Union had two options afterwards the rejection of the EU Constitution, which had been prepared as an ambitious project and with big hopes, in referenda conducted in France and Holland in 2005. The first option was to proceed on its way with the present Nice Treaty. That would actually not be a bad option, contrary to opposite claims, if taking account the functional improvements it had achieved after the enlargement. The second option was to proceed by arranging a settlement among the 18 ratifying, 2 rejecting member states and the rest which hadn’t signed the Treaty yet. The European Summit which was convened on June 23rd, 2007 chose this option to move on after a two year reasoning period.

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