Treaty of Amsterdam

The Amsterdam treaty provided for this over a five year period.

Everything has to be sacrificed for the hard euro, even the Amsterdam treaty if necessary.

The Amsterdam Treaty provides a good legal basis for this.

The report also goes further than the Amsterdam Treaty requires with regard to foreign and security policy.

Indeed the draft Amsterdam Treaty takes the same approach.

We think that the Amsterdam Treaty is good, and we want to see how it works in practice.

But the choice facing us today is not between the Amsterdam Treaty and an ideal treaty that we would have wanted.

The Amsterdam Treaty represents progress in that direction, but there is still a long road ahead of us to achieve transparency and democracy.

Not only has the Amsterdam Treaty just entered into force but we are at a key point in the implementation of the Union's employment strategy.

In 1996, the European Union passed the Amsterdam treaty on democracy and human rights with provisions for expelling members.

Parliament's legislative procedures can be tightened considerably if advantage is taken of the opportunities offered by the Amsterdam Treaty.

It is precisely in the area of common foreign and security policy that there is great potential in implementing the Amsterdam Treaty.

In the Amsterdam Treaty, those three topics were clearly linked to the other policies of the European Union.

They share one thing in common: neither urban policy nor regional planning policy have any foundation in the Amsterdam Treaty.

It is a sign that after the ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty the Council might decide on framework programmes by a qualified majority.

I also took that opportunity to point out that he must certainly be appointed under the procedure provided to that effect in the Amsterdam Treaty.

Legitimised through the Amsterdam treaty, the EES then became a process in its own right.

About 2.75 million people in the republic were eligible to vote on the peace agreement and on a separate issue, the European Union's Amsterdam treaty.

Finally, the law that applies in this case is the Amsterdam Treaty, declaration No 11, which the Commissioner quoted just a moment ago.

We should say NO to the Amsterdam Treaty and NO to drugs.

So we would like to see something along the lines of Article 1 of the Netherlands Basic Law included in the Amsterdam treaty.

Secondly, we need a fresh initiative, particularly in the light of enhanced police cooperation in the Amsterdam Treaty, to stop the illegal sale of arms.

As the Amsterdam Treaty requires new rules on public access, the rules on access to documents in competition cases should also be clarified.

Under the Amsterdam Treaty, Parliament has the power of codecision with the Council in the area of consumer protection and public health matters.

For this reason, the proposals we are about to make with a view to the coming Amsterdam Treaty must fulfil certain requirements, which I will run through quickly.