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"The Nice European Council, which was held from 8 to 11 December 2000, enabled the Intergovernmental Conference to make a certain amount of progress.
In particular, the following are worthy of note:
Declaration 23 on the future of the Union, and the launching of a wide-ranging and in-depth debate;
the revision of Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union on the respecting of fundamental rights in the Member States;
the loosening up of procedures, making it possible to engage in enhanced cooperation;
the increasing of the powers of the President of the Commission and his appointment by a qualified majority of the Council which, together with the recent proposals by the French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, on the election of the latter, make it possible to reinforce considerably its legitimacy and therefore its authority.
This resolution should encourage the Heads of State and Government to go even further, particularly by coming out in favour of the convocation of a convention like the one responsible for drawing up the Charter of Fundamental Rights, whose participation in the next revision of the Treaties is essential. This convention will not limit itself to being merely a forum: we intend it to participate actively and authoritatively in the debate, and to draw up the next treaty in constitutional form.
It is essential that the national parliaments should ratify the Treaty of Nice. The theory that there is a crisis in the recasting process which would justify a call for non-ratification is a myth which places enlargement at risk and makes it impossible to hold the necessary debate."@en1
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