ABSTRACT
The European Union Member States passed through four treaty negotiations in fifteen years, the first being the Single European Act, followed by the Maastricht Treaty, the Amsterdam Treaty and the most being the Nice Treaty. The original EEC also dropped ‘Economic’ from its name to become the European Community, which would provide the general foundation of the Union, and the Council Regulation acquired some power to act in socio-political fields including culture, education, environment and public health. The transformation of the character of the Union towards civil polity has reached such a stage that democratic decision-making can only take place with future European Union (EU) Treaty revisions coupled with national constitutional readjustments, carried out in coordination with all Member States. The Nice intergovernmental conference left unsolved some serious institutional and constitutional problems that have been emerging in the EU since the 1990s.
