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Ratification of Reform-Lisbon Treaty in the United Kingdom

By Bartolus

The ratification process of the Reform-Lisbon Treaty is underway in the United Kingdom. That process is sure to generate some interesting, even heated, debates.

The British House of Commons Library has published an informative research paper on the bill that, if passed, will ratify the new Treaty in British law. The research paper summarizes the Treaty and how it will be ratified in the United Kingdom. Also, there is an Appendix describing briefly the ratification process in the other member States.

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has published this informative, well researched and interesting report on the Foreign Affaires and Foreign Policy aspects of the Lisbon-Reform Treaty. At times it does not spare the British Government some criticism such as when it concludes:

We conclude that there is no material difference between the provisions on foreign affairs in the Constitutional Treaty which the Government made subject to approval in a referendum and those in the Lisbon Treaty on which a referendum is being denied.

Full post as published by EU Law Blog on January 21, 2008 (boomark / email).