Countries of the European Union have agreed Sunday to study possible changes of the Treaty of the EU to improve the functioning of the euro area and in particular to strengthen fiscal discipline, has announced its President Herman Van Rompuy. It was decided to "explore the possibilities of a limited change treaty," he told reporters Van Rompuy, which was responsible for drafting a report on the subject.But such a change will not happen without the agreement of 27 countries of the European Union, he said. "A change treaty limited + + means that this is not a complete overhaul of the institutional architecture defined by the Lisbon Treaty", said the EU president, who pleaded primarily for strengthening economic governance of monetary union. It has demonstrated its ineffectiveness with the debt crisis. "The important thing is not the revision of the treaties in itself.(...) The aim is to deepen our economic union and reinforce our fiscal discipline, "he said. The European Union will thus in the direction of Berlin, which calls for a revision of the treaties in order to tighten fiscal discipline and ensure that all states practice discipline and do not let slip their deficits. "We looked at how we can strengthen fiscal discipline in this regard we have said explicitly that changes in the treaty can not be excluded", welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel about it. The German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle Saturday was even proposed to bring before the Court of Justice European countries too lax. Finnish Minister for European Affairs, Alexander Stubb, welcomed the European Commission provide the same powers in respect of States to enforce fiscal discipline than it has in respect of companies to enforce competition in the market unique. "We need a Budget Commissioner who is a strong commissioner, a sort of Tsar of the budget that would have similar powers on national budgets, to those now available to the Commissioner for Competition on firms' , he told AFP. Other countries such as France call for a revision of the treaties, not necessarily share the ambitions of Berlin.Some even push for a revision of the treaties to implement Eurobond that would pool the debt in the euro area. Nevertheless, a revision of the treaties is a work in progress. Europe there is already broken teeth being forced to abandon in 2005 its draft Constitution, including after the referendum in France. As for the Lisbon Treaty, which took over, he had the greatest difficulty to be adopted and ratified in 2009. The Luxembourg was skeptical, fearing that "opens a Pandora's box" by initiating a change in the Treaty. "Do not open a new battlefield," he told his foreign minister, Jean Asselborn.
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Countries of the European Union have agreed Sunday to study possible changes of the Treaty of the EU to improve the functioning of the euro area and in particular to strengthen fiscal discipline, has announced its President Herman Van Rompuy. It was decided to "explore the possibilities of a limited change treaty," he told reporters Van Rompuy, which was responsible for drafting a report on the subject.But such a change will not happen without the agreement of 27 countries of the European Union, he said. "A change treaty limited + + means that this is not a complete overhaul of the institutional architecture defined by the Lisbon Treaty", said the EU president, who pleaded primarily for strengthening economic governance of monetary union. It has demonstrated its ineffectiveness with the debt crisis. "The important thing is not the revision of the treaties in itself.(...) The aim is to deepen our economic union and reinforce our fiscal discipline, "he said. The European Union will thus in the direction of Berlin, which calls for a revision of the treaties in order to tighten fiscal discipline and ensure that all states practice discipline and do not let slip their deficits. "We looked at how we can strengthen fiscal discipline in this regard we have said explicitly that changes in the treaty can not be excluded", welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel about it. The German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle Saturday was even proposed to bring before the Court of Justice European countries too lax. Finnish Minister for European Affairs, Alexander Stubb, welcomed the European Commission provide the same powers in respect of States to enforce fiscal discipline than it has in respect of companies to enforce competition in the market unique. "We need a Budget Commissioner who is a strong commissioner, a sort of Tsar of the budget that would have similar powers on national budgets, to those now available to the Commissioner for Competition on firms' , he told AFP. Other countries such as France call for a revision of the treaties, not necessarily share the ambitions of Berlin.Some even push for a revision of the treaties to implement Eurobond that would pool the debt in the euro area. Nevertheless, a revision of the treaties is a work in progress. Europe there is already broken teeth being forced to abandon in 2005 its draft Constitution, including after the referendum in France. As for the Lisbon Treaty, which took over, he had the greatest difficulty to be adopted and ratified in 2009. The Luxembourg was skeptical, fearing that "opens a Pandora's box" by initiating a change in the Treaty. "Do not open a new battlefield," he told his foreign minister, Jean Asselborn.