... with its goals of bringing together institutions to its citizens with better democratic scrutiny, expanding the amount of Member States included in the Union, achieving greater transparency and simplification of the treaties ( www.europarl.org.uk). These all being the beginning aims pointing towards an EU constitution. The EU states that the powers that belong to them are attributed ones only and that there will be an enhanced role of the National Parliaments with regard to subsidiarity and EU initiatives. On February 6th 2003 the first draft section of the new Constitutional Treaty was drawn up by the Convention on the Future of Europe. The Praesidium drew up the first draft of Articles 1- 16 who are the executive body. Some of the reports that are included are on Economic Governance and the Principle of Subsidiarity. This was to define the European Union's objectives and provided an insight into how the constitution ...

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