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- - - - change in leadership in Germany, more up and coming, less war focussed
      - relationship core to European integration
    - - fight for influence in voting system
      - worried small states could join together to make a blockade
- - - - European Council
      - Extension of EP power
  - - - not a constitution for Europe
      - all references to EU symbol removed
      - commission to keep 27 members
      - reweighing of votes in council pushed to 2014
      - Text of Charter of Fundamental Rights dropped
      - opt out conditions
        
        Brits and Irish regarding justice and home affairs
        
        Denmark with justice and home affairs
        
        Poland with Charter of Fundamental Human Rights in relation to family issues and mortality (abortion)
- - - - called for convention on future of Europe to examine simplification and reorganisation of EU Treaties
  - - - more radical proposals
      - size of commission reduced from 2014
      - commission president to be elected rather than appointed by European Parliament based on a proposal from the European Council
      - European Council elected for 2.5 years
      - bring external EU together
        
        minister for foreign affairs to combine external relations commissioner and high representatives for CFSP
      - EP seats redistributed on proportional bias
    - - new QMV system, less complicated and more even
      - bridging clauses to enable later extensions of QMV and soon to have ordinary legislative procedures allowing for future decisions
      - making sure the decision making works in a larger union
      - QMV extended to 20 existing and 20 new legal bases
    - - stimulus coming from 9/11
      - abolish pillar system
      - progressive definition of a common defence policy
        
        indicated you could be on the way to a EU army - not the case
      - by working together, better protection from terrorism
      - enhance area of freedom, security and justice
        
        more active judicial and political corporation on asylum, immigration, and external border control
      - EU gains single legal personality