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Analyse the changes to European Union's institutions introduced by the Treaty of Nice
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Law of the European Union Analyse the changes to European Union's institutions introduced by the Treaty of Nice Nice was far from being a triumph-particularly for the French Presidency. Nor, however, was it a disaster. Four observations must suffice: 1. The Treaty of Nice was bound to be modest. The core business consisted of the issues that the European Council could not agree on at Amsterdam in June 1997. Other questions were added to the agenda as the IGC progressed. None of them could however be compared with the stuff from which the Single European Act and the treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam were made. As the meeting at Nice confirmed, heads of government and state can invest even relatively trivial issues with dramatic potential. For all the sound and fury that surrounded their endeavours, however, the questions that they addressed remain relatively unimportant. 2. The bad news from Nice was largely the...
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