Making progress with the EU reform treaty?

Doris Kraus is convinced that none of the 27 EU states will "dare to let the reform treaty fail, because they all stand to lose so much if this project goes off the rails once again - particularly the European Union itself. ... After six years - the reform process began in December 2001 - there's a risk that the whole purpose of this enterprise could be forgotten. The original goal was to relieve the EU of its unwieldiness - criticised by friends and foes alike - and streamline it with the aid of better organisation and decision-making structures. But instead the reform process has come to be associated with failure - in the form of the constitution rejected in 2005 - and trickery."

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