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Slow progress at the Rome IGC.
The Rome Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC), dealing with the new constitution for the EU, is making slow progress. It is unlikely that the conference will finish its deliberation by December and despite the best efforts of the Italian Presidency, it looks like it will run over into the Irish Presidency in 2004. A meeting of the European Councilon non-institutional issues was held as part of the IGC and a number of amendmentsto the text of the draft constitution were tabled.
Several of the amendments would be welcomed by social partner groups, for example equality between men and women as one of the values, and access to health care in other Member States.
Others would be seen as worrying such as the move to create a stronger legal status of the explanation for the Charter, which severely limits its scope, and a return to unanimity away from Qualified Majority Voting for asylum and immigration, social policy and environment.
For more information on the proposed amendments and the IGC go to the Act 4 Europe website at www.act4europe.org
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