Will the reform treaty help the EU?

For Jean-Pierre Denis, the mini-treaty does not simplify relations within the EU: "The Union is in the grip of a terrible stranglehold, seized by an evermore irresolvable contradiction: constrained by the public to offer surface simplifications, it can only apply them through complication and fussy, sometimes downright twisted legal quarrying. But the after effect of well-meaning and obscure technical-political measures is always a tendency towards scepticism. This perverse spiral is working more than ever. In its form as much as in its contents, the simplified treaty will be terribly complicated, much more incomprehensible even than the Constitution project."

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