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News in Brief ISSUE 35 DECEMBER 2009 IN THIS ISSUE: News NEWS IN BRIEF The Lisbon Treaty The next Commissioners Role of National Parliaments The Lisbon Treaty EU 2020 The Treaty came into force on 1 December Spanish Presidency priorities 2009, bringing with it a new President of the Cohesion Policy Council, Herman Van Rompuy and High The Stockholm (JHA) programme Representative, Lady Catherine Ashton. Iceland’s EU application Lady Ashton, in what was billed as a pre- Other News hearing, outlined her views to the European Upcoming meetings & events Parliament (2 December 2009). Contact details The next Commission President Barroso has published a list of Cohesion Policy Commissioners-designate (27 November Outgoing Regional Policy Commissioner 2009). Full details are included in Appendix Pawel Samecki has published a ‘blue print’ i. In addition Barroso revised some of the for regional policy to serve as a reference portfolios, detailed in Appendix ii. document for his successor (3 December 2009). Role of National Parliament President Barroso has written to the The Stockholm (JHA) programme speakers of each National Parliament The European Parliament approved the details of the Stockholm Programme (25 outlining details of their enhanced role post- November 2009). The issue will be signed Lisbon. off by Heads of Government at their summit ‘EU 2020’ (11 – 12 December 2009). The Commission has launched a consultation Financial Supervision on a successor to the Lisbon Agenda (24 The ECOFIN Council reached agreement on November 2009) with a closing date of 15 the establishment of three Financial January 2010. Supervisory Authorities (3 December Spanish Council Presidency Priorities 2009). The matter will be discussed by the Spanish Europe Minister Diego López Garrido Parliament in the New Year. has outlined 4 priorities for his country’s Iceland’s EU Application presidency: (i) Jobs & the Economy; (ii) The prospects for Iceland’s application for EU Lisbon Treaty Implementation; (iii) membership are discussed. Keys issues Citizenship; and (iv) Foreign Affairs. Spain include fisheries, absorption of the aquis will take on the Presidency on 1 January communautaire, and Icelandic public opinion. 2010. BRUSSELS BULLETIN 2 THE LISBON TREATY external affairs, a position for which she Proposal must be scrutinised by the European The Lisbon (Reform) Treaty Parliament as part of Barroso’s College (see below). All being well, she will Current status assume her Commission duties when the The Lisbon Treaty came into force on 1 new College comes into office, expected December 2009. to be 1 February 2010. As part of her duties, Lady Ashton will What’s happening? head the European External Action Les Grands Fromages. Herman Van Service, the EU’s diplomatic corps, which Rompuy, prime minister of Belgium, was will bring together 6,000 officials from chosen by EU leaders at their specially- the European Commission, permanent convened summit to become the first Council staff and national ministries. permanent President of the European Council (19 November 2009). The Lady Ashton appeared before the UK’s Lady Catherine Ashton, the serving European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs EU Trade Commissioner, was selected to Committee for what has been described be the first High Representative for as a ‘pre-hearing’ (2 December 2009). Foreign Affairs and Security. Van (Lady Ashton will be interrogated Rompuy and Ashton took up their formally by MEPs as part of Barroso’s positions on 1 December 2009, as the team, week commencing 11 January Treaty came into force. Van Rompuy 2010). The High Representative set out will begin to formally exercise his duties several principles by which she would be as Council President from 1 January guided including respect for Parliament 2010. Both will serve in the first and a commitment to promoting human instance a two-and-a-half year term. rights and other European values. The President of the Council. Herman Commenting on her role, Lady Ashton Van Rompuy will chair the quarterly EU admitted that she is still in the dark as Heads of Government ‘summits’. He will to her precise job description as it is also represent the EU at international ‘brand new’. She went on, ‘we're Heads of State & Government actually still working on what the Treaty gatherings, whilst Lady Ashton (see means, in terms of pulling our budget below) is expected to represent the EU together [and] what it means at a Foreign Ministerial level. The Lisbon [regarding] the relationship with the rotating [EU] presidency,’. treaty is vague of the specific duties of the two positions, and it is widely Lady Ashton outlined how she would expected that the incumbents will define balance her mandate as the High their own roles and relationships (with Representative and Commission Vice each other, with the holders of the President. As High Representative she rotating Council Presidency, European would ensure consistency between the Parliament and with the Commission) different areas of the EU’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP). She The High Representative. In addition to informed members that she would be being EU High Representative, Lady using the right of initiative conferred to Ashton, will become a vice president of the High Representative by the Treaty to the Commission with responsibility for make proposals in the area of CFSP. ‘I BRUSSELS BULLETIN 3 will draw my authority in international continue to be based on the weighted negotiations from the European Council voting agreed in the 2000 Nice in which I will take part, and from the Treaty. After that date, voting will be Foreign Affairs Council […] which I will based on a ‘double majority’ system chair from January. The Council will requiring 55% of member states deliberate, will determine views, with my representing 65% of the EU support and input, and that will be the population to pass a decision. (From voice I will speak with.’ She emphasised 2014 to 2017 a member state can that she would be an active member of ask to revert to the old rules in any the European Commission as Vice vote. States just short of a blocking President and would therefore draw on minority may invoke a mechanism to its many resources and instruments. delay EU decisions for several months). The High Representative’s main priority • Qualified majority voting (QMV) is for the coming months would be to set extended to the area of Justice & up the European External Action Service Home Affairs. (EEAS). ‘The External Action Service will • National Parliaments will be given an add value to what our member states input into the development of EU already do, and in many areas can offer laws (see below), and the ability to a ‘one-stop shop’ to those who want it delay legislation (the Ionnina and need it. It is a unique selling point Clause). for many of our partners, and I will • A new right of Citizens’ Initiative will make it my legacy and first priority to enable groups that can gather one establish.’ million signatures to call upon the The first priority of the EEAS, once Commission to bring forward policy established, will be to conduct a review proposals. of the EU’s external policy in certain key • The treaty introduces a formal option areas such as the Middle East, the for a country to leave the EU under Balkans, Afghanistan and Africa and negotiated terms relations with strategic partners such as the US, Russia and China. THE NEXT COMMISSION Other changes Proposal • The powers of co-decision will be n/a extended, becoming the ordinary legislative procedure for law making Current status in the institutions. This will have The Commission President published a particular impact in Justice, list of Commissioners-designate (27 Agriculture & Fisheries. November 2009), which is reproduced • From 2014, the size of the below as Appendix i. Commission will be capped at two thirds of the number of member What’s happening? states. The distribution of portfolios is the • The number of seats in the European prerogative of the Commission Parliament will increase from 751 to President. However, member states 736. actively lobby for particular briefs. Once • Until 2014 decision-making will appointed, the Commissioners do not BRUSSELS BULLETIN 4 represent their countries, although they years. are often seen as the most senior national position in the EU. In announcing the Commissioners- designate, President Barroso The new Commission will see 12 emphasized five key challenges facing Commissioners returning (see appendix Europe: (i) Restarting economic growth i), and will have nine women, one more and ensuring long–term sustainability than Barroso’s first College. Six and competitiveness for the future; (ii) members of the Commission will have Fighting unemployment and reinforcing served in the European Parliament. social cohesion; (iii) Turning the challenge of a sustainable Europe to a Three new portfolios have been created: competitive advantage; (iv) Ensuring the • Climate action, to be held by security of Europeans; and (v) Denmark’s Connie Hedegaard. Reinforcing EU citizenship and Hedegaard is currently hosting the participation. UN climate conference in Copenhagen (7 - 18 December). • Justice, Fundamental Rights and ROLE OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS Citizenship, to be held by Vivane Proposal Reding. This post will inherit The Lisbon Treaty; Protocol I on the role many of the responsibilities and of national parliaments in the EU & powers of the previous portfolio, Protocol II on the application of the ‘Justice, Freedom & Security’, principles of subsidiarity and including ownership of the proportionality. Stockholm Programme and discrimination. Current status • Home Affairs (internal affairs and The Lisbon Treaty came into force on 1 migration), to be held by Cecilia December 2009. Following this, Malmström. This portfolio will Commission President Barroso and inherit frontier issues, police, outgoing Vice-President Margot drugs and the operation of the Wallström sent a letter to the speakers Schengen and Visa Systems.
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