The previous post presented three individual Spanish Euroblogs. We continue with a summary on communication by the EU and by mentioning two different collectives which publish in Spanish.
On blog Bitácora, which is a part of the Spanish version of multilingual Presseurop network, Susana del Río Villar an expert on Team Europa of the EU Commission representation in Spain describes communication challenges from the viewpoint of the EU institutions. In her first post on the subject, she discusses ‘total communication’ in Europe, which is much more than information: Comunicación integral (I) (9 September 2010).
Conceptually the European Parliament made a great leap forward ahead of the 2009 elections, although the debates were hijacked by national politics. Right now the European Commission attempts to project a more centralised and personalised message through its president José Manuel Barroso.
The virtual game Citzalia tries a different tack to engage younger citizens, but it remains to be seen if it succeeds.
What citizens do not seem to realise is that they are present daily in the real world European Parliament, through the directly elected Members of the European Parliament. Tweet your MEP (which starts on 22 September 2010) will certainly connect Europarliamentarians with citizens.
Each Euroblog has its own personality, but they publish, motivate debate and shape European public opinion on a daily basis. The former hierarchies of communication are a thing of the past. They cannot control the responses, but the messages can engage more people. Participation complements representation.
El País and La Comunidad
El País online presents itself as a global newspaper in Spanish. (Remember more than 400 million native Spanish speakers worldwide, second most globally.) It has quality reporting and opinion pieces on its pages for Europe.
La Comunidad of El País houses Euroblog, a collective European blog, where different citizen bloggers (cross)post their entries.
Europa451
Europa451 is a slightly different collective, because it is thebrainchild of five young professional journalists: Fernando Navarro, Jean Sébastien Lefebvre, Julie Gonce, Francesca Barca and Cédric Audinot.
They work together to produce articles in Spanish (Europa451.es), French (Europa451.fr) and Italian (Europa451.it).
By the way, this reminds me of the Day of Multilingual Blogging, 26 September 2010. There are many different ways to participate, but already 131 are attending and 119 may be attending.
Is crossing linguistic and national borders more useful than fun, or vice versa?
Ralf Grahn
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Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Euroblogosphere: Three Spanish quality blogs #bkaeb
The blog post on the absence of Euroblogs in Portugal (or Portuguese) did not immediately result in hidden treasures being found, although the country (population 10.6 million) is a member of the European Union and the language could act as a bridge to 260 million Portuguese speakers worldwide.
Please, comment if you are aware of Portuguese Euroblogs, which could take their rightful place on Bloggingportal.eu, the multilingual aggregator for EU related blogs, and enliven the European online public sphere.
Spain and Spanish
Economic difficulties and high unemployment have shaped outside perceptions of Spain and Portugal lately, but both countries are EU members since 1986, fully engaged in all European Union policies without opt-outs, so they share the common currency (although they are struggling to achieve economic growth and tolerable public deficits).
If we lump the Iberians together, there are about 56 million of them, with about 46 million in Spain alone (Eurostat 2010).
Not only is Spain one of the bigger EU members, but with more than 400 million native speakers the Spanish language is the second most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese (source: Wikipedia). Thus, Spanish Euroblogs have the potential to build bridges towards the outside world, in addition to their participation in discussion at national and European level.
Internally, in democratic Spain the autonomous communities play an important part, and especially Catalan language blogs deal with European issues as well. With a population of 7.5 million, Catalonia is bigger than nine EU member states (sources: Wikipedia).
Euroblogs #bkaeb
Spain has an active community of EU related blogs. In this blog post we take a look at three individual Spanish Eurobloggers, with more to come in later entries.
Eva en Europa, Más Europa and Ciudadano Morante are three Euroblogs well worth the recognition and encouragement intended by the #bkaeb Twitter hashtag (for Better Know A EuroBlog).
When there was much criticism of the title and content of José Manuel Durão Barroso’s “State of the Union” speech, fellow-Iberian Eva Peña countered the trend by a spirited defence, as we mentioned earlier. Her blog post Más presidente (8 September 2010) on Eva en Europa saw the debate in Strasbourg as a historic day on the road towards a political Europe.
Blogging from Barcelona, Eva Peña writes mainly in Spanish, but also in Catalan and English.
Más Europa is the forum where Encarna Hernández blogs about past, present and future European integration. She uses her academic background to write educational blog posts on various themes. Her thorough work has not gone unnoticed.
The latest blog entry by Hernández, ¿Habemus líder? (9 September 2010), picked up the thread from Eva Peña, with an in depth article about Barroso’s speech and the debate, without omitting weak points. She also discussed Barroso’s performance in the context of the Commission’s new communication strategy, arguing that Barroso is a better communicator than Buzek, Van Rompuy or Ashton, although Europe needs work, dedication and sacrifices more than words. In her view, Europe has a leader.
On Ciudadano Morante, Jorge Juan Morante López offered a summary of Europe’s “moment of truth”, the need for more than 27 separate national solutions: ¿En qué estado se encuentra la Union europea? (9 September 2010).
“Europeísmo”
All three blogs mentioned have their personal style, but what they have in common is a European perspective and a spirit of “europeísmo” as natural as the air they breathe.
In a country where 76.72 per cent voted ‘Yes’ to the EU’s Constitutional Treaty (although the turnout was only 42.32 in this non-dramatic referendum) and where the Congress of Deputies had to settle for, but approved the lesser Treaty of Lisbon by 322 votes to 6, and the Senate by 232 votes to 6, being pro-European is a natural state (a breath of fresh air for someone who devotes time and effort to following the uniquely negative atmosphere in the United Kingdom).
Recognition
There seems to be recognition by the Commission representation in Spain and continued interaction with the EU related blogosphere, something EU representations in other member states could take a closer look at.
In 2009 or 2010, Más Europa, Ciudadano Morante and Eva en Europa have all been awarded diplomas by the Commission office in Spain, but there also seems to be interaction between Euroblogs, with the government, mainstream media and educational events.
Some bloggers are campaigning for a daily slot for Europe on state television news (RTVE), just as, in my view, all European public broadcasters and quality newspapers should have a daily section on Europe, a distinct context between the national and the global.
Spain in the EU
Despite the groundswell of ‘Europeanness’, Spanish governments have at times been as pigheaded as the worst member states: almost wrecking treaty negotiations on Nice Council votes, unilateral mass naturalisation of immigrants, lack of macro and micro level reforms causing headaches for the common currency, certain difficulties for the Spanish presidency of the EU Council to adapt to the Lisbon Treaty, an affordable European patent etc.
General suggestions
Here I have presented only three blogs, but I venture a few broader impressions. My feeling is that the Spanish blogosphere in general has been muted in its criticism of officialdom. In my view, there would be room for more critical discussion about ‘real’ Spanish EU politics and EU shortcomings, among Spanish Euroblogs.
In order to cross linguistic and national borders, more linking and sharing between Spanish and other Eurobloggers, opening vistas for readers in both directions, would be another item on my wish-list.
We will return to the Spanish Euroblog theme in future posts.
Ralf Grahn
Please, comment if you are aware of Portuguese Euroblogs, which could take their rightful place on Bloggingportal.eu, the multilingual aggregator for EU related blogs, and enliven the European online public sphere.
Spain and Spanish
Economic difficulties and high unemployment have shaped outside perceptions of Spain and Portugal lately, but both countries are EU members since 1986, fully engaged in all European Union policies without opt-outs, so they share the common currency (although they are struggling to achieve economic growth and tolerable public deficits).
If we lump the Iberians together, there are about 56 million of them, with about 46 million in Spain alone (Eurostat 2010).
Not only is Spain one of the bigger EU members, but with more than 400 million native speakers the Spanish language is the second most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese (source: Wikipedia). Thus, Spanish Euroblogs have the potential to build bridges towards the outside world, in addition to their participation in discussion at national and European level.
Internally, in democratic Spain the autonomous communities play an important part, and especially Catalan language blogs deal with European issues as well. With a population of 7.5 million, Catalonia is bigger than nine EU member states (sources: Wikipedia).
Euroblogs #bkaeb
Spain has an active community of EU related blogs. In this blog post we take a look at three individual Spanish Eurobloggers, with more to come in later entries.
Eva en Europa, Más Europa and Ciudadano Morante are three Euroblogs well worth the recognition and encouragement intended by the #bkaeb Twitter hashtag (for Better Know A EuroBlog).
When there was much criticism of the title and content of José Manuel Durão Barroso’s “State of the Union” speech, fellow-Iberian Eva Peña countered the trend by a spirited defence, as we mentioned earlier. Her blog post Más presidente (8 September 2010) on Eva en Europa saw the debate in Strasbourg as a historic day on the road towards a political Europe.
Blogging from Barcelona, Eva Peña writes mainly in Spanish, but also in Catalan and English.
Más Europa is the forum where Encarna Hernández blogs about past, present and future European integration. She uses her academic background to write educational blog posts on various themes. Her thorough work has not gone unnoticed.
The latest blog entry by Hernández, ¿Habemus líder? (9 September 2010), picked up the thread from Eva Peña, with an in depth article about Barroso’s speech and the debate, without omitting weak points. She also discussed Barroso’s performance in the context of the Commission’s new communication strategy, arguing that Barroso is a better communicator than Buzek, Van Rompuy or Ashton, although Europe needs work, dedication and sacrifices more than words. In her view, Europe has a leader.
On Ciudadano Morante, Jorge Juan Morante López offered a summary of Europe’s “moment of truth”, the need for more than 27 separate national solutions: ¿En qué estado se encuentra la Union europea? (9 September 2010).
“Europeísmo”
All three blogs mentioned have their personal style, but what they have in common is a European perspective and a spirit of “europeísmo” as natural as the air they breathe.
In a country where 76.72 per cent voted ‘Yes’ to the EU’s Constitutional Treaty (although the turnout was only 42.32 in this non-dramatic referendum) and where the Congress of Deputies had to settle for, but approved the lesser Treaty of Lisbon by 322 votes to 6, and the Senate by 232 votes to 6, being pro-European is a natural state (a breath of fresh air for someone who devotes time and effort to following the uniquely negative atmosphere in the United Kingdom).
Recognition
There seems to be recognition by the Commission representation in Spain and continued interaction with the EU related blogosphere, something EU representations in other member states could take a closer look at.
In 2009 or 2010, Más Europa, Ciudadano Morante and Eva en Europa have all been awarded diplomas by the Commission office in Spain, but there also seems to be interaction between Euroblogs, with the government, mainstream media and educational events.
Some bloggers are campaigning for a daily slot for Europe on state television news (RTVE), just as, in my view, all European public broadcasters and quality newspapers should have a daily section on Europe, a distinct context between the national and the global.
Spain in the EU
Despite the groundswell of ‘Europeanness’, Spanish governments have at times been as pigheaded as the worst member states: almost wrecking treaty negotiations on Nice Council votes, unilateral mass naturalisation of immigrants, lack of macro and micro level reforms causing headaches for the common currency, certain difficulties for the Spanish presidency of the EU Council to adapt to the Lisbon Treaty, an affordable European patent etc.
General suggestions
Here I have presented only three blogs, but I venture a few broader impressions. My feeling is that the Spanish blogosphere in general has been muted in its criticism of officialdom. In my view, there would be room for more critical discussion about ‘real’ Spanish EU politics and EU shortcomings, among Spanish Euroblogs.
In order to cross linguistic and national borders, more linking and sharing between Spanish and other Eurobloggers, opening vistas for readers in both directions, would be another item on my wish-list.
We will return to the Spanish Euroblog theme in future posts.
Ralf Grahn
Saturday, 16 February 2008
Consolidated Lisbon Treaty Update
People continue to arrive at this blog looking for a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon.
The last update of the list of consolidated language versions is not that old, published 8 February 2008. But since then a few kind souls have told us about new consolidations, and I have been able to take a look at some complementary sources. Therefore, the time for an update has come.
Let us remember that the European Union has 23 treaty and official languages. The intergovernmental conference itself professed its belief in linguistic diversity, and encouraged the translation of the treaties into regional and minority languages by the member state governments.
As far as I know, with the exception of a leaked French version from the European Parliament, none of the consolidations has been produced by the EU institutions, and only one directly by a government. The rest have been compiled by parliaments, think-tanks, NGOs and private citizens.
The nine or ten languages with consolidated versions published to date cover only parts of our community of 490 million citizens.
Here is an updated list of the language versions found this far (almost all in pdf format), with the languages mentioned in alphabetical order in English:
Danish
The EU information of the Danish parliament communicates actively. Some information is available in English, too. The consolidated Lisbon Treaty is an update.
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
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Dutch
The DJ Nozem blog pointed me towards this new consolidation in Word format, compiled by René Barents and posted on the web site of the daily NRC Handelsblad.
René Barents: Geconsolideerde teksten van het Verdrag betreffende de Europese Unie en het Verdrag betreffende de werking van de Europese Unie zoals gewijzigd door het Verdrag van Lissabon
http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/Europa/verdraglissabon_barents.doc
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English
IIEA
Peadar ó Broin at the Institute of International and European Affairs (Dublin, Ireland) has produced a complete updated consolidation of the amended treaties, including the protocols and annexes, in a format easy to read (pdf).
Treaty on European Union
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Annexes to the EU and FEU Treaties
Protocols to the EU and FEU Treaties and, where appropriate, to the EAEC Treaty
Go to http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch
Professor Steve Peers has painstakingly compiled an annotated version consisting of several files for the Statewatch Observatory on the EU Constitution and the Reform Treaty, where similarities and differences between the different reform stages are highlighted. Informative, if you know what you are looking for.
Go to http://www.statewatch.org
FCO
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office published a complete consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon. The ratification debate in the House of Commons is ongoing.
The FCO web pages on Britain in the EU contain both general information on the Reform Treaty and answers on specific questions in addition to the consolidation I just mentioned. For the consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty, see Command Paper 7310 ‘Consolidated texts of the EU Treaties as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon’:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/FCO_PDF_CM7310_ConsolidatedTreaties.pdf
The FCO also published Command Paper 7311 ‘A comparative table of the current EC and EU Treaties as amended by the treaty of Lisbon’, which briefly sets out the similarities and differences between the Lisbon Treaty and the other relevant Treaties article by article. Available through the Official Documents web page (as is Cm 7310 mentioned above):
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/
Markus Walther
Markus Walther, a German student from Leipzig, who produced and published a German consolidated version of the EU Treaty of Lisbon on his web site, posted an English readable consolidated version as well (a preliminary document without protocols and charter).
Go to http://www.mwalther.net/europa/eulaw-lisbon-mwalther.pdf
Open Europe
Open Europe produced a consolidated version with the Treaty of Lisbon and the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe presented side by side for convenient comparison.
Open Europe: The Lisbon Treaty and the European Constitution: A side-by-side comparison; January 2008;
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/comparative.pdf
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Finnish
Europe Information, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has promised a consolidated version during the spring.
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French
Europa-EU-Audience
The bilingual web site en.europa-eu-audience found two unofficial parallel versions of the amending treaties in French, side by side with the current ones:
http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/fr/files/EP_TCE_versus_TFU_Final.doc
http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/fr/files/EP_TUE_versus_TUE_final.doc
Assemblée nationale
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
Later, the French National Assembly has presented a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon side by side with the current treaties. Look for Assemblée Nationale: Rapport d’information déposé par la Délégation de l’Assemblée Nationale pour l’Union Européenne, sur le traité de Lisbonne ; No 562, Tome 2, 8 janvier 2008 :
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/dossiers/traite_lisbonne_due_information.asp
Jean-Luc Sauron
Jean-Luc Sauron: Comprendre le Traité de Lisbonne – Texte consolidé intégral des traités – Explications et commentaires ; Gualino éditeur, Paris 2008 ; 351 p. (Prix 20 €)
The book (pages 141 – 351) contains, in a handy format, consolidated versions of the amended Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Explanations relating to it as well as a modest Index.
In principle, the Treaty texts are based on a version from 30 October 2007, but footnotes take later modifications into account.
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German
Markus Walther
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
Klemens H. Fischer
The book “Der Vertrag von Lissabon – Text und Kommentar zum Europäischen Reformvertrag”, by Klemens H. Fischer (Nomos, Stämpfli Verlag and Verlag Österreich) describes the EU reform process and especially the IGC 2007 before it presents consolidated and annotated versions of the TEU and TFEU including protocols and declarations. The accompanying CD-Rom contains background material and three different consolidations of each treaty: with amendments highlighted and footnotes, with amendments highlighted and a neutral consolidated version.
***
Hungarian
Two sources reported that the Hungarian government has published a consolidation of the Lisbon Treaty, although was not able to verify it. But I encourage anyone with the linguistic and technical skills to search (and to report back).
***
Irish Gaelic
A consolidation in Irish Gaelic has been announced by the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin.
Go to http://www.iiea.com
***
Portuguese
Peadar ó Broin reported on a version in Portuguese also, prepared by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
http://www.eu2007.pt/NR/rdonlyres/1D96311C-F90D-4E97-B355-DFEA0DD1ABEA/0/TLconsolidado.pdf
Alternatively, you can link to the text via the website for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
http://www.mne.gov.pt/
Or you can link via the website for the Portuguese Presidency of 2007:
http://www.eu2007.pt/UE/vPT/Presidencia_Conselho/TratadoLisboa.htm
***
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano offers a complete updated consolidation, with protocols and declarations, in Spanish, compiled by José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares and Mariola Urrea Corres. The former has written an introductory study.
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
***
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier, the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, has published a complete consolidated Swedish language version of the Lisbon Treaty.
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf)
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget – Protokoll mm (pdf)
http://www.sieps.se
The publisher SNS Förlag has announced a handy pocket version of the Treaty of Lisbon in Swedish, to be published 29 February 2008. If the new publication follows the pattern of the previous pocket treaties by SNS, it will contain the bare treaty texts.
http://www.sns.se
***
If the number of languages with consolidated versions was seven or eight (Hungarian attested but not verified) last time the list was published, we now know of 9 or 10 official EU languages covered out of 23.
Are there more consolidated versions the citizens of the European Union should be aware of?
I am most grateful, if you want to share your knowledge on the Treaty of Lisbon with me and other EU citizens: consolidated versions as well as books and resources, such as official documents from the member states’ governments and parliaments, scholarly assessments and popular literature, plus information on the ratification processes.
Ralf Grahn
The last update of the list of consolidated language versions is not that old, published 8 February 2008. But since then a few kind souls have told us about new consolidations, and I have been able to take a look at some complementary sources. Therefore, the time for an update has come.
Let us remember that the European Union has 23 treaty and official languages. The intergovernmental conference itself professed its belief in linguistic diversity, and encouraged the translation of the treaties into regional and minority languages by the member state governments.
As far as I know, with the exception of a leaked French version from the European Parliament, none of the consolidations has been produced by the EU institutions, and only one directly by a government. The rest have been compiled by parliaments, think-tanks, NGOs and private citizens.
The nine or ten languages with consolidated versions published to date cover only parts of our community of 490 million citizens.
Here is an updated list of the language versions found this far (almost all in pdf format), with the languages mentioned in alphabetical order in English:
Danish
The EU information of the Danish parliament communicates actively. Some information is available in English, too. The consolidated Lisbon Treaty is an update.
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
***
Dutch
The DJ Nozem blog pointed me towards this new consolidation in Word format, compiled by René Barents and posted on the web site of the daily NRC Handelsblad.
René Barents: Geconsolideerde teksten van het Verdrag betreffende de Europese Unie en het Verdrag betreffende de werking van de Europese Unie zoals gewijzigd door het Verdrag van Lissabon
http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/Europa/verdraglissabon_barents.doc
***
English
IIEA
Peadar ó Broin at the Institute of International and European Affairs (Dublin, Ireland) has produced a complete updated consolidation of the amended treaties, including the protocols and annexes, in a format easy to read (pdf).
Treaty on European Union
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Annexes to the EU and FEU Treaties
Protocols to the EU and FEU Treaties and, where appropriate, to the EAEC Treaty
Go to http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch
Professor Steve Peers has painstakingly compiled an annotated version consisting of several files for the Statewatch Observatory on the EU Constitution and the Reform Treaty, where similarities and differences between the different reform stages are highlighted. Informative, if you know what you are looking for.
Go to http://www.statewatch.org
FCO
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office published a complete consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon. The ratification debate in the House of Commons is ongoing.
The FCO web pages on Britain in the EU contain both general information on the Reform Treaty and answers on specific questions in addition to the consolidation I just mentioned. For the consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty, see Command Paper 7310 ‘Consolidated texts of the EU Treaties as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon’:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/FCO_PDF_CM7310_ConsolidatedTreaties.pdf
The FCO also published Command Paper 7311 ‘A comparative table of the current EC and EU Treaties as amended by the treaty of Lisbon’, which briefly sets out the similarities and differences between the Lisbon Treaty and the other relevant Treaties article by article. Available through the Official Documents web page (as is Cm 7310 mentioned above):
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/
Markus Walther
Markus Walther, a German student from Leipzig, who produced and published a German consolidated version of the EU Treaty of Lisbon on his web site, posted an English readable consolidated version as well (a preliminary document without protocols and charter).
Go to http://www.mwalther.net/europa/eulaw-lisbon-mwalther.pdf
Open Europe
Open Europe produced a consolidated version with the Treaty of Lisbon and the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe presented side by side for convenient comparison.
Open Europe: The Lisbon Treaty and the European Constitution: A side-by-side comparison; January 2008;
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/comparative.pdf
***
Finnish
Europe Information, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has promised a consolidated version during the spring.
***
French
Europa-EU-Audience
The bilingual web site en.europa-eu-audience found two unofficial parallel versions of the amending treaties in French, side by side with the current ones:
http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/fr/files/EP_TCE_versus_TFU_Final.doc
http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/fr/files/EP_TUE_versus_TUE_final.doc
Assemblée nationale
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
Later, the French National Assembly has presented a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon side by side with the current treaties. Look for Assemblée Nationale: Rapport d’information déposé par la Délégation de l’Assemblée Nationale pour l’Union Européenne, sur le traité de Lisbonne ; No 562, Tome 2, 8 janvier 2008 :
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/dossiers/traite_lisbonne_due_information.asp
Jean-Luc Sauron
Jean-Luc Sauron: Comprendre le Traité de Lisbonne – Texte consolidé intégral des traités – Explications et commentaires ; Gualino éditeur, Paris 2008 ; 351 p. (Prix 20 €)
The book (pages 141 – 351) contains, in a handy format, consolidated versions of the amended Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Explanations relating to it as well as a modest Index.
In principle, the Treaty texts are based on a version from 30 October 2007, but footnotes take later modifications into account.
***
German
Markus Walther
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
Klemens H. Fischer
The book “Der Vertrag von Lissabon – Text und Kommentar zum Europäischen Reformvertrag”, by Klemens H. Fischer (Nomos, Stämpfli Verlag and Verlag Österreich) describes the EU reform process and especially the IGC 2007 before it presents consolidated and annotated versions of the TEU and TFEU including protocols and declarations. The accompanying CD-Rom contains background material and three different consolidations of each treaty: with amendments highlighted and footnotes, with amendments highlighted and a neutral consolidated version.
***
Hungarian
Two sources reported that the Hungarian government has published a consolidation of the Lisbon Treaty, although was not able to verify it. But I encourage anyone with the linguistic and technical skills to search (and to report back).
***
Irish Gaelic
A consolidation in Irish Gaelic has been announced by the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin.
Go to http://www.iiea.com
***
Portuguese
Peadar ó Broin reported on a version in Portuguese also, prepared by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
http://www.eu2007.pt/NR/rdonlyres/1D96311C-F90D-4E97-B355-DFEA0DD1ABEA/0/TLconsolidado.pdf
Alternatively, you can link to the text via the website for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
http://www.mne.gov.pt/
Or you can link via the website for the Portuguese Presidency of 2007:
http://www.eu2007.pt/UE/vPT/Presidencia_Conselho/TratadoLisboa.htm
***
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano offers a complete updated consolidation, with protocols and declarations, in Spanish, compiled by José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares and Mariola Urrea Corres. The former has written an introductory study.
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
***
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier, the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, has published a complete consolidated Swedish language version of the Lisbon Treaty.
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf)
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget – Protokoll mm (pdf)
http://www.sieps.se
The publisher SNS Förlag has announced a handy pocket version of the Treaty of Lisbon in Swedish, to be published 29 February 2008. If the new publication follows the pattern of the previous pocket treaties by SNS, it will contain the bare treaty texts.
http://www.sns.se
***
If the number of languages with consolidated versions was seven or eight (Hungarian attested but not verified) last time the list was published, we now know of 9 or 10 official EU languages covered out of 23.
Are there more consolidated versions the citizens of the European Union should be aware of?
I am most grateful, if you want to share your knowledge on the Treaty of Lisbon with me and other EU citizens: consolidated versions as well as books and resources, such as official documents from the member states’ governments and parliaments, scholarly assessments and popular literature, plus information on the ratification processes.
Ralf Grahn
Friday, 8 February 2008
Lisbon Treaty: Consolidated language versions
There is a continuing stream of people looking for a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon arriving at this blog. Since it may be tricky to find the information in the archive, I decided to compile the essence of a few posts on consolidations in English and other languages.
Please, note that this time I did not have time to check if the links are still working, or if there are pleasant surprises such as updates with protocols etc.
Let us remember that the European Union has 23 official languages. The seven or eight language versions I have noticed to date cover only parts of our community of 490 million citizens.
Here are the language versions found this far (almost all in pdf format), with the languages mentioned in alphabetical order in English:
Danish
The EU information of the Danish parliament communicates actively. Some information is available in English, too. The consolidated Lisbon Treaty is an update.
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
***
Dutch
The DJ Nozem blog pointed me towards this new consolidation in Word format, compiled by René Barents and posted on the web site of the daily NRC Handelsblad.
René Barents: Geconsolideerde teksten van het Verdrag betreffende de Europese Unie en het Verdrag betreffende de werking van de Europese Unie zoals gewijzigd door het Verdrag van Lissabon
http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/Europa/verdraglissabon_barents.doc
***
English
IIEA
Peadar ó Broin at the Institute of International and European Affairs (Dublin, Ireland) has produced a complete consolidation of the amended treaties, including the protocols and annexes, in a format easy to read (pdf).
Treaty on European Union
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Annexes to the EU and FEU Treaties
Protocols to the EU and FEU Treaties and, where appropriate, to the EAEC Treaty
Go to http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch
Professor Steve Peers has painstakingly compiled a version consisting of several files for the Statewatch Observatory on the EU Constitution and the Reform Treaty, where similarities and differences between the different reform stages are highlighted
Go to http://www.statewatch.org
FCO
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office published a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon. The ratification debate in the House of Commons is ongoing.
The FCO web pages on Britain in the EU contain both general information on the Reform Treaty and answers on specific questions in addition to the consolidation I just mentioned. For the consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty, see Command Paper 7310 ‘Consolidated texts of the EU Treaties as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon’:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/FCO_PDF_CM7310_ConsolidatedTreaties.pdf
The FCO also published Command Paper 7311 ‘A comparative table of the current EC and EU Treaties as amended by the treaty of Lisbon’, which briefly sets out the similarities and differences between the Lisbon Treaty and the other relevant Treaties article by article. Available through the Official Documents web page (as is Cm 7310 mentioned above):
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/
Markus Walther
Markus Walther, a German student from Leipzig, who produced and published a German consolidated version of the EU Treaty of Lisbon on his web site, posted an English readable consolidated version as well (a preliminary document without protocols and charter).
Go to http://www.mwalther.net/europa/eulaw-lisbon-mwalther.pdf
Open Europe
Open Europe produced a consolidated version with the Treaty of Lisbon and the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe presented side by side for convenient comparison.
Open Europe: The Lisbon Treaty and the European Constitution: A side-by-side comparison; January 2008;
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/comparative.pdf
***
Finnish
Europe Information, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has promised a consolidated version during the spring.
***
French
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
***
Gaelic
A consolidation in Irish Gaelic promised shortly by the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin.
***
German
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
***
Hungarian
Two sources reported that the Hungarian government has published a consolidation of the Lisbon Treaty, although was not able to verify it. But I encourage anyone with the linguistic and technical skills to search (and to report back).
***
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano (updated after signing; read the introductory study)
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
***
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf)
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget – Protokoll mm (pdf)
http://www.sieps.se
***
I am most grateful, if you want to share your knowledge on the Treaty of Lisbon with me and other EU citizens: consolidated versions as well as books and resources, such as official documents from the member states, popular presentations and scholarly literature, plus information on the ratification processes.
Ralf Grahn
Please, note that this time I did not have time to check if the links are still working, or if there are pleasant surprises such as updates with protocols etc.
Let us remember that the European Union has 23 official languages. The seven or eight language versions I have noticed to date cover only parts of our community of 490 million citizens.
Here are the language versions found this far (almost all in pdf format), with the languages mentioned in alphabetical order in English:
Danish
The EU information of the Danish parliament communicates actively. Some information is available in English, too. The consolidated Lisbon Treaty is an update.
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
***
Dutch
The DJ Nozem blog pointed me towards this new consolidation in Word format, compiled by René Barents and posted on the web site of the daily NRC Handelsblad.
René Barents: Geconsolideerde teksten van het Verdrag betreffende de Europese Unie en het Verdrag betreffende de werking van de Europese Unie zoals gewijzigd door het Verdrag van Lissabon
http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/Europa/verdraglissabon_barents.doc
***
English
IIEA
Peadar ó Broin at the Institute of International and European Affairs (Dublin, Ireland) has produced a complete consolidation of the amended treaties, including the protocols and annexes, in a format easy to read (pdf).
Treaty on European Union
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Annexes to the EU and FEU Treaties
Protocols to the EU and FEU Treaties and, where appropriate, to the EAEC Treaty
Go to http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch
Professor Steve Peers has painstakingly compiled a version consisting of several files for the Statewatch Observatory on the EU Constitution and the Reform Treaty, where similarities and differences between the different reform stages are highlighted
Go to http://www.statewatch.org
FCO
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office published a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon. The ratification debate in the House of Commons is ongoing.
The FCO web pages on Britain in the EU contain both general information on the Reform Treaty and answers on specific questions in addition to the consolidation I just mentioned. For the consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty, see Command Paper 7310 ‘Consolidated texts of the EU Treaties as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon’:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/FCO_PDF_CM7310_ConsolidatedTreaties.pdf
The FCO also published Command Paper 7311 ‘A comparative table of the current EC and EU Treaties as amended by the treaty of Lisbon’, which briefly sets out the similarities and differences between the Lisbon Treaty and the other relevant Treaties article by article. Available through the Official Documents web page (as is Cm 7310 mentioned above):
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/
Markus Walther
Markus Walther, a German student from Leipzig, who produced and published a German consolidated version of the EU Treaty of Lisbon on his web site, posted an English readable consolidated version as well (a preliminary document without protocols and charter).
Go to http://www.mwalther.net/europa/eulaw-lisbon-mwalther.pdf
Open Europe
Open Europe produced a consolidated version with the Treaty of Lisbon and the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe presented side by side for convenient comparison.
Open Europe: The Lisbon Treaty and the European Constitution: A side-by-side comparison; January 2008;
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/comparative.pdf
***
Finnish
Europe Information, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has promised a consolidated version during the spring.
***
French
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
***
Gaelic
A consolidation in Irish Gaelic promised shortly by the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin.
***
German
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
***
Hungarian
Two sources reported that the Hungarian government has published a consolidation of the Lisbon Treaty, although was not able to verify it. But I encourage anyone with the linguistic and technical skills to search (and to report back).
***
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano (updated after signing; read the introductory study)
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
***
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf)
Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget – Protokoll mm (pdf)
http://www.sieps.se
***
I am most grateful, if you want to share your knowledge on the Treaty of Lisbon with me and other EU citizens: consolidated versions as well as books and resources, such as official documents from the member states, popular presentations and scholarly literature, plus information on the ratification processes.
Ralf Grahn
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Updated Lisbon Treaty in English
Yesterday evening I received a positive message from Peadar ó Broin, of the Institute of International and European Affairs (Dublin, Ireland): An updated consolidated English version of the Treaty of Lisbon has been posted on the web site of the Institute:
http://www.iiea.com
A Gaelic version will be posted, soon. That would bring the number of readable language versions to eight out of 23 official EU languages.
***
In addition, Peadar ó Broin’s message was heartening personally, too. I take the liberty to repeat it here:
“Dear Ralf,
Congratulations on your blog, a much needed information resource! Just to let you know that I have placed an updated edition of the Consolidated Treaties as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon on the website of the Institute of International and European Affairs ( www.iiea.com ). This is the English language edition; an edition in Irish Gaelic will be placed on the website shortly.
The Protocols, Charter and Declarations will also be available on the website in English, hopefully by tomorrow.
Good luck with your research and kind regards,
Peadar ó BROIN”
***
I think that the citizens of the European Union are entitled to readable versions of the Reform Treaty, each in his or her language.
For the convenience of those readers who daily arrive at my blog, while looking for a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon, I am going to present a summary of my findings so far:
Danish
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
English
Institute of International and European Affairs (Ireland) updated version
http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch (professor Steve Peers)
http://www.statewatch.org
Markus Walther
http://www.mwalther.net/europa/eulaw-lisbon-mwalther.pdf
Finnish
Europe Information, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has promised a consolidated version during the spring.
French
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
Gaelic
A consolidation in Irish Gaelic promised shortly by the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin.
German
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
Hungarian
Two sources have reported that the Hungarian government has published a consolidation of the Lisbon Treaty, although I have not been able to verify it.
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano (updated after signing; note the introductory study)
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier: Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf);
http://www.sieps.se
***
I am most grateful if you want to share your knowledge on the Treaty of Lisbon with me and other EU citizens: consolidated versions, popular or scholarly literature and information on the ratification processes.
Ralf Grahn
http://www.iiea.com
A Gaelic version will be posted, soon. That would bring the number of readable language versions to eight out of 23 official EU languages.
***
In addition, Peadar ó Broin’s message was heartening personally, too. I take the liberty to repeat it here:
“Dear Ralf,
Congratulations on your blog, a much needed information resource! Just to let you know that I have placed an updated edition of the Consolidated Treaties as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon on the website of the Institute of International and European Affairs ( www.iiea.com ). This is the English language edition; an edition in Irish Gaelic will be placed on the website shortly.
The Protocols, Charter and Declarations will also be available on the website in English, hopefully by tomorrow.
Good luck with your research and kind regards,
Peadar ó BROIN”
***
I think that the citizens of the European Union are entitled to readable versions of the Reform Treaty, each in his or her language.
For the convenience of those readers who daily arrive at my blog, while looking for a consolidated version of the Treaty of Lisbon, I am going to present a summary of my findings so far:
Danish
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
English
Institute of International and European Affairs (Ireland) updated version
http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch (professor Steve Peers)
http://www.statewatch.org
Markus Walther
http://www.mwalther.net/europa/eulaw-lisbon-mwalther.pdf
Finnish
Europe Information, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has promised a consolidated version during the spring.
French
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
Gaelic
A consolidation in Irish Gaelic promised shortly by the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin.
German
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
Hungarian
Two sources have reported that the Hungarian government has published a consolidation of the Lisbon Treaty, although I have not been able to verify it.
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano (updated after signing; note the introductory study)
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier: Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf);
http://www.sieps.se
***
I am most grateful if you want to share your knowledge on the Treaty of Lisbon with me and other EU citizens: consolidated versions, popular or scholarly literature and information on the ratification processes.
Ralf Grahn
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Consolidated Treaty of Lisbon
Consolidated versions of the EU Treaty of Lisbon are in constant demand. This I have seen daily from the visitors on my blog. These searches come from every corner of Europe, as well as from North America and Asia.
The discussion on Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström’s blog showed that:
“Ralf - We also get a large number of requests from citizens via our Europe Direct service but I’m afraid it’s not for the Commission to produce a consolidated text of the Treaty, it is for the Council.”
“It’s easy enough to find versions of the Treaty on the web, Ralf has references in his blog. They also exist in Danish and Hungarian to my knowledge.”
***
I have been trying to find consolidated versions of the Reform Treaty, and posted my findings on different occasions, but you may have to wade through a number of postings to find them. For your convenience, I am going to make a fresh posting here, collecting the versions I have found:
Danish
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
English
Institute of European Affairs (Ireland) http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch (professor Steve Peers) http://www.statewatch.org
French
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
German
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano (updated after signing)
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier: Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf); http://www.sieps.se
***
These versions, in Danish, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish, are the ones I have been able to find.
This makes a total of six languages out of the 23 official languages of the European Union. The Council’s refusal to publish consolidated versions is not only contrary to openness and transparency; EU citizens are not given equal access to readable new Treaties.
I know that Hungary was the first member state to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon, but does anyone have more exact information on the Hungarian consolidated Treaty mentioned by the Administrator on Commissioner Wallström’s blog?
In addition, the Finnish government promised belated consolidations (presumably in Finnish and Swedish) during this spring.
If no other consolidations are found or produced (by actors outside the EU institutions), the rest of the EU citizens have to wait for reader-friendly, consolidated Treaties until the ratification processes are over and the Treaty of Lisbon has entered into force.
***
Dear reader,
If you have additional information, please share it. In addition to consolidated versions, my wish concerns new books on the Lisbon Treaty.
Ralf Grahn
See:
Margot Wallström’s blog: http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/wallstrom/
The discussion on Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström’s blog showed that:
“Ralf - We also get a large number of requests from citizens via our Europe Direct service but I’m afraid it’s not for the Commission to produce a consolidated text of the Treaty, it is for the Council.”
“It’s easy enough to find versions of the Treaty on the web, Ralf has references in his blog. They also exist in Danish and Hungarian to my knowledge.”
***
I have been trying to find consolidated versions of the Reform Treaty, and posted my findings on different occasions, but you may have to wade through a number of postings to find them. For your convenience, I am going to make a fresh posting here, collecting the versions I have found:
Danish
Folketingets EU-Oplysning: Sammenskrevet udgave af udkastet til Lissabon-traktaten og det gaeldande traktatunderlag; Bind 1 Traktater, Bind 2 Protokoller og erklaeringer;
http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/emner/reformtraktat/reform/sammenskrevet/
English
Institute of European Affairs (Ireland) http://www.iiea.com
Statewatch (professor Steve Peers) http://www.statewatch.org
French
Assemblée nationale : Rapport d’information sur les modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne au traité sur l’Union européenne et au traité instituant la Communauté européenne, par M. Axel Poniatowski ; No 439, 28 novembre 2007 ;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/rap-info/i0439.pdf
German
Markus Walther: Das Primärrecht der Europäischen Union; Endfassung, Stand 18. Dezember 2007; (updated after signing)
http://www.mwalther.net/union.html
Spanish
Real Instituto Elcano (updated after signing)
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org
Swedish
Sieps – Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier: Ladda ned Lissabonfördraget - Konsoliderad version av EU:s fördrag (pdf); http://www.sieps.se
***
These versions, in Danish, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish, are the ones I have been able to find.
This makes a total of six languages out of the 23 official languages of the European Union. The Council’s refusal to publish consolidated versions is not only contrary to openness and transparency; EU citizens are not given equal access to readable new Treaties.
I know that Hungary was the first member state to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon, but does anyone have more exact information on the Hungarian consolidated Treaty mentioned by the Administrator on Commissioner Wallström’s blog?
In addition, the Finnish government promised belated consolidations (presumably in Finnish and Swedish) during this spring.
If no other consolidations are found or produced (by actors outside the EU institutions), the rest of the EU citizens have to wait for reader-friendly, consolidated Treaties until the ratification processes are over and the Treaty of Lisbon has entered into force.
***
Dear reader,
If you have additional information, please share it. In addition to consolidated versions, my wish concerns new books on the Lisbon Treaty.
Ralf Grahn
See:
Margot Wallström’s blog: http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/wallstrom/
Sunday, 9 December 2007
Consolidated Treaty of Lisbon
People may be for or against, or undecided, but all have a right to readable information on
the Reform Treaty of the European Union, to be named the Treaty of Lisbon.
Quite a number of people seem to be looking for consolidated versions, with the new Treaties inserted into the existing ones. Some might even be ready to base their opinions on facts.
Therefore, I am going to repeat information which can be found in different blog postings since the middle of October.
The official, reader-unfriendly version of the Treaty of Lisbon consists of two documents of the intergovernmental conference (IGC 2007), dated 3 December 2007: the Final Act (CIG 15/07) and the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community (CIG 14/07), posted on the web site of the Council.
The intergovernmental conference 2007 has accomplished its task. The signing ceremony takes place in Lisbon on 13 December 2007.
The official text is hard to read, since it consists of amendments. In order to see the Treaties as a whole, you need to compare with the existing Treaties.
***
The citizens of the European Union need reader-friendly, or at least a little bit less unreadable, versions of the new Treaties. In a Union in which decisions are taken as openly as possible and as closely as possible to the citizen (Article 1, paragraph 2, of both the present and the amended EU Treaty) and which observes the principle of the equality of its citizens, who shall receive equal attention from its institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (Article 8 of the amended EU Treaty), consolidated versions of the Treaty of Lisbon should be available to every citizen in his or her language.
Until now, the institutions of the European Union or the governments of the Member States have not made consolidations available. Luckily, other bodies have published consolidated versions, in four of the 23 official languages of the EU.
The Irish Institute of European Affairs (IIEA) and professor Steve Peers (Statewatch Observatory on the Constitution/Reform Treaty) have published consolidations in English. The French National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) has produced a French version and the think-tank Real Instituto Elcano a Spanish one.
The web addresses are:
http://www.iiea.com English
http://www.statewatch.org English
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr French
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org Spanish
Are there other consolidations, which I have not noticed, yet? Are there plans for other language versions?
I am grateful for information you might have.
Ralf Grahn
the Reform Treaty of the European Union, to be named the Treaty of Lisbon.
Quite a number of people seem to be looking for consolidated versions, with the new Treaties inserted into the existing ones. Some might even be ready to base their opinions on facts.
Therefore, I am going to repeat information which can be found in different blog postings since the middle of October.
The official, reader-unfriendly version of the Treaty of Lisbon consists of two documents of the intergovernmental conference (IGC 2007), dated 3 December 2007: the Final Act (CIG 15/07) and the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community (CIG 14/07), posted on the web site of the Council.
The intergovernmental conference 2007 has accomplished its task. The signing ceremony takes place in Lisbon on 13 December 2007.
The official text is hard to read, since it consists of amendments. In order to see the Treaties as a whole, you need to compare with the existing Treaties.
***
The citizens of the European Union need reader-friendly, or at least a little bit less unreadable, versions of the new Treaties. In a Union in which decisions are taken as openly as possible and as closely as possible to the citizen (Article 1, paragraph 2, of both the present and the amended EU Treaty) and which observes the principle of the equality of its citizens, who shall receive equal attention from its institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (Article 8 of the amended EU Treaty), consolidated versions of the Treaty of Lisbon should be available to every citizen in his or her language.
Until now, the institutions of the European Union or the governments of the Member States have not made consolidations available. Luckily, other bodies have published consolidated versions, in four of the 23 official languages of the EU.
The Irish Institute of European Affairs (IIEA) and professor Steve Peers (Statewatch Observatory on the Constitution/Reform Treaty) have published consolidations in English. The French National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) has produced a French version and the think-tank Real Instituto Elcano a Spanish one.
The web addresses are:
http://www.iiea.com English
http://www.statewatch.org English
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr French
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org Spanish
Are there other consolidations, which I have not noticed, yet? Are there plans for other language versions?
I am grateful for information you might have.
Ralf Grahn
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