Nog steeds de beste leerling van de klas? België en het Europees constitutionaliseringsproces
(2006) Internationale Spectator : maandblad voor internationale politiek — Vol. 60, n° 6, p. 326-331 (2006)
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- Tom Delreux deals with the role of Belgium in the EU constitutionalising process. Starting from the 2001 Belgian Presidency and the Laeken Summit and concluding with the ratification by the seven Belgian parliaments the author presents an overview of political implications of the Convention, the Inter-Governmental Conference and the ratification process in Belgium. He argues that Belgium's EU policy, both during the Convention and the IGC, was accurately coordinated and characterised by a large measure of continuity. Belgium has promoted, as was already witnessed during previous IGCs and treaty amendments, a stronger communautarian, federal structure for the EU. As this policy was generally supported by most political parties (except for the extreme right-wing Vlaams Belang), the Constitutional Treaty was ratified in national and regional parliaments with a large majority. So Belgium has remained one of the most pro-EU member states during the constitutionalising process.
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Delreux, T. (2006). Nog steeds de beste leerling van de klas? België en het Europees constitutionaliseringsproces. Internationale Spectator : maandblad voor internationale politiek, 60(6), 326-331. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/29554 (Original work published 2006)