Nobody wants to create another EU crisis

Next week, the Heads of States and Governments, the Commission and Parliament representatives will meet in Lisbon. The Presidency aims to reach agreement on the Reform Treaty so that the text could be signed by the end of the year. Since the opening of the Inter-governmental Conference, a group of legal advisors from all the Member States and the European Institutions met over 20 times.

Their task was, in principle, simple. Taking care not to go beyond the mandate agreed in June, they ...