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Article: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : LISBON TREATY GETS MEPS' OVERWHELMING SUPPORT.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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Almost 78% of the European Parliament's plenary assembly gave their support to the Lisbon Treaty on 20 February in Strasbourg. MEPs adopted, by 525 votes for, 115 against and 29 abstentions, a report by Inigo Mendez de Vigo (EPP-ED, Spain) and Richard Corbett (PES, UK) which affirms that the text signed on 13 December is "clearly better" than the treaties currently in force.
It notably allows "more effectiveness, greater democratic responsibility and better rights for citizens". However, the resolution raises some regrets such as the abandonment of the constitutional approach and the plethora of exemptions for certain member states (see Europolitics 3472).
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