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The Treaty of Nice was signed by European leaders on 26 February 2001 and came into force on 1 February 2003.
It amended the Maastricht Treaty (or the Treaty on European Union) and the Treaty of Rome (or the Treaty establishing the European Community which, before the Maastricht Treaty, was the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community). The Treaty of Nice reformed the institutional structure of the European Union to withstand eastward expansion, a task which was originally intended to have been done by the Amsterdam Treaty, but failed to be addressed at the time.
The entry into force of the treaty was in doubt for a time, after its initial rejection by Irish voters in a referendum in June 2001. This referendum result was reversed in a subsequent referendum held a little over a year later.
The TreatyofNice was signed by European leaders on 26 February 2001 and came into force on 1 February 2003. It amended the Maastricht Treaty (or the...
Article 16 of the Treaty on European Union, as amended by the Treatyof Lisbon, stipulates that the Council voting arrangements of the NiceTreaty applied...
ofNice; these events killed between 8 and 23 people. In February 2001, European leaders met in Nice to negotiate and sign what is now the Treatyof Nice...
started by the Treatyof Amsterdam (1997) and by the TreatyofNice (2001) with a view to enhancing the efficiency and democratic legitimacy of the Union and...
referendum on the TreatyofNice, EU Leaders met to discuss the outcome of the Irish Referendum in Seville (Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European...
The Treaty on European Union, commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty, is the foundation treatyof the European Union (EU). Concluded in 1992 between the...
leader of the party. Barrett's activism began in the 1990s, with the anti-abortion campaign group Youth Defence. He campaigned against the TreatyofNice in...
on some of the treaties (the SEA, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon and all accession treaties between 1972 and 2011) as it was part of the consultation...
Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2001 (Ireland), 7 June 2001, 53.9% against, turnout 34.8% In 2001, Irish voters rejected the TreatyofNice, in the...
strengthened again; the TreatyofNice, signed in 2001, gave the Presidents more power over the composition of the College of Commissioners. José Manuel...
Following this, the TreatyofNice imposed a cap on the number of members to be elected: 732, later raised to 751 by the Treatyof Lisbon. Like the other...
enlargement of the European Union). At the same time it changed a number of points which were originally laid down in the TreatyofNice. The treaty was signed...
in EU treaty referendum campaigns since the 1990s. The Seville Declarations on the TreatyofNice acknowledge Ireland's "traditional policy of military...
be bound by the obligations treaties and the Council acting by majority may alter or lift such sanctions. The TreatyofNice included a preventive mechanism...
The Maastricht Treaty was amended by the 2001 TreatyofNice, which closed the gaps and loopholes in the Maastricht and Rome Treaties. The 20 participating...
The Treatyof Rome, or EEC Treaty (officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community), brought about the creation of the European Economic...
allocated to each country is determined by the Treaty of Nice, and is adjusted by the accession treatyof each new member. This last adjustment occurred with...
instead, the TreatyofNice transferred certain of its elements to the Treatyof Rome and hence its work continued as part of the EC area of the European...
first treaty, it was the only one with a limit). No attempt was made to renew its mandate; instead, the TreatyofNice transferred certain of its elements...
Declaration's call for the pooling of coal and steel resources under a common High Authority. The six signed the Treatyof Paris creating the European Coal...
number of seats allocated to each country is determined by the treaties, currently the TreatyofNice, and is adjusted by the accession treatyof each new...
rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. However, European leaders agreed during ratification of the NiceTreaty to forego this arrangement...
The Treatyof Brussels, also referred to as the Brussels Pact, was the founding treatyof the Western Union (WU) between 1948 and 1954, when it was amended...
seat fixed by the treaties, in The Hague. Separately, the TreatyofNice establishes Brussels as the venue for all formal summits of the European Council...
the treatyof Amsterdam and the treatyofNice made the additional pillars increasingly supranational. Most important among these were the transfer of policy...