Call for 'coordinated' ratification of EU treaty

EU communications commissioner Margot Wallstrom has suggested there should be some synchronisation between national parliaments when they ratify the new Reform Treaty.

In a comment piece in EUobserver, Ms Wallstrom writes that "in order to stimulate a debate at European level, I would like to see a degree of [ratification] coordination among the Member States."

"It would be possible, and in my view desirable, for national parliaments - a...