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Nice Treaty was assessed too often, even by the Institutions, in a national perspective - Dangers do not lie so much in text as in method followed to achieve it

It discourages reading. Now that the Treaty of Nice is there, and anybody can brows the 100 pages that form it, the assessment generally agreed upon becomes a near banality: institutional reform stunted and insufficient, which nevertheless represents everything that could have been expected in the present political circumstances and which does not block the Union and even less paralyse the accession negotiations. Other more radical interpretations have also emerged, the most colourful, in...