Brussels, 08/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Belgian Parliament's "Comité d'avis fédéral", responsible for European issues, adopted a resolution on the IGC presented by Ms Laloy (Senate), Ms Moerman (Chamber) and Van Lancker (European Parliament) and thus called on the Belgian government, with a view to the European Council in Feria, to resolutely pledge that the agenda of the Intergovernmental Conference in progress would include more issues.
The resolution, which affirms that the aim of successful enlargement cannot be achieved except in a Union of a federal kind, calls for this wider agenda to include at least: - revision of the articles of the treaties allowing sanctions that go as far as the exclusion of a Member State which does not respect the EU's fundamental values; - the separation of the treaties, "today unreadable" into one part containing provisions of a constitutional kind and another containing more technical provisions for which review procedures would be made more flexible (which implies the abandonment of the division into "pillars"); - the establishment of the principle whereby codecision, together with majority decisions in Council, is the rule; - the granting of legal personality to the EU; - the insertion of the charter of Fundamental Rights into the Treaty; - the extension of the possibility of enhanced cooperation.
The MEPs also give their views on: - double majority vote in Council; - the presence of a national from each Member State in the Commission; - the search, in the breakdown of seats at the EP, for balance between the "personal representation and minimum guaranteed representation".