Laeken Declaration
Laeken Declaration : One year after the Treaty of Nice and the Nice Declaration, which called for institutional reform to be pursued beyond the 2000 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC 2000), the Laeken European Council adopted a Declaration on the Future of the European Union (Laeken Declaration) on 15 December 2001, committing the Union to becoming more democratic, transparent and effective. This Declaration posed 60 targeted questions on the future of the Union, around our main themes: the division and definition of powers; the simplification of the treaties; the institutional set-up; and the move towards a Constitution for European citizens. In 2002 the Council convened a Convention on the Future of Europe, gathering together the main stakeholders, in order to examine the fundamental questions raised by the future development of the Union so as to prepare in as broad and transparent a way as possible for the 2004 IGC. See: Convention on the Future of Europe; European Constitution; Subsidiarity
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