The Reform Treaty, or Treaty of Lisbon as perhaps I should get used to calling it, is big news again, as the European Union (Amendment) Bill to give effect to it has its second reading today. Here are the […]

An excellent and helpful post on EU Law Blog earlier this week set out the way the Reform Treaty categorises the competences of the EU under three broad headings: those things only the EU will have power to do […]

The Times today has a few letters responding to the government and Lord Wedderburn on the Reform Treaty.

Robert Gutfreund Walmsley’s letter makes depressing eurosceptic reading. What does he mean by the dual nationality provision? There?s nothing new in […]

Writing to the Times, this time, about the Charter again and those cases he mentioned in the Telegraph last week.

I was amazed, watching Question Time on the BBC tonight, to hear both Harriet Harman and Simon Hughes suggest that one of the ways the Reform Treaty differs from the EU Constitution is in not providing for a “European President”. […]

I broadly welcome the Commons European Scrutiny Committee’s report about the inter-governmental conference on the Reform Treaty.

The most important point they make is that the Reform Treaty is the “substantial equivalent” of the Constitution. The committee is […]

EU Law Blog has posted the latest draft of the Reform Treaty, as it’s emerged from the group of http://www.nflauthenticjersey.com/ Council, Commission and Member States’ governments’ legal experts that have been working on it in Brussels since […]