The European Convention and the Rome and Brussels IGCs: A veto players analysis

The European Union (EU) is in the process of adopting a constitution. A European Convention under the Presidency of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing elaborated the document, which was presented at the Intergovernmental Conference of Rome at the end of 2003 and was rejected. The rejection led to a new text adopted at the Brussels IGC which from the point of view of this analysis is close to a 50-50 split between the Nice and the Convention texts.