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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9106

11 January 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution/france
Jacques Chirac calls on June European Council to make institutional adjustments in order to prevent “paralysis” of enlarged EU - Paris will put proposals forward in close cooperation with Berlin

Brussels, 10/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, President Jacques Chirac urged for the current treaties to be adjusted in order to make the institutions of the enlarged EU “more democratic, more effective and more transparent”. Given the constitutional deadlock created by the French and Dutch no-votes, the EU cannot allow itself to remain at a standstill as “institutional status quo” would in time condemn it to “inertia and paralysis”, Mr Chirac said on 10 January at the...

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