A parting example of the increasing interconnections between human rights and the EU can be given. In 2000, the European Council (now beginning to be more currently referred to as the Council of the European Union) met. Irrespective of the name change this body remains the council of the heads of government of the Member States of the EU. They met as the Council with representatives from the Commission. It is this group that has authority to sign the treaties of the Union at political level. At the meeting in 2000 they agreed to set up a convention to draft a Charter of Fundamental Rights for the European Union. The Convention was composed of 15 Member State representatives, 30 MPs from national parliaments, 16 Members of the European Parliament, members of the Commission and members of the European Court of Justice and the Council of Europe. They drafted a charter of 50 rights. The latest EU treaty, the Treaty of Nice, which came into force in February 2003, declared support for the 50-right charter that has been drafted.

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A parting example of the increasing interconnections between human rights and the EU can be given. In 2000, the European Council (now beginning to be more currently referred to as the Council of the European Union) met. Irrespective of the name change this body remains the council of the heads of government of the Member States of the EU. They met as the Council with representatives from the Commission. It is this group that has authority to sign the treaties of the Union at political level. At the meeting in 2000 they agreed to set up a convention to draft a Charter of Fundamental Rights for the European Union. The Convention was composed of 15 Member State representatives, 30 MPs from national parliaments, 16 Members of the European Parliament, members of the Commission and members of the European Court of Justice and the Council of Europe. They drafted a charter of 50 rights. The latest EU treaty, the Treaty of Nice, which came into force in February 2003, declared support for the 50-right charter that has been drafted.