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Article: Roundup: EU leaders sign Lisbon Treaty to reform bloc
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- December 13, 2007
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Roundup: EU leaders sign Lisbon Treaty to reform bloc
LISBON, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Heads of state and government of the
European Union (EU) member states on Thursday signed the Lisbon
Treaty, which they hope can make decision-making more efficient.
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was the first leader to
put his name on the treaty.
In a speech prior to the signing, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose
Socrates, whose country holds the EU presidency, said the treaty
will take the European project one step further and make the EU
stronger.
"This is not a treaty for the past. This is a treaty for the
future, a treaty that will make Europe more modern, more
efficientand more democratic," he told ...