I wanted to raise this matter as I was not sure whether the Minister was going to expand on the point. One part of the structure is for vice-presidencies during the six-month period, but has any thought been given to that role. There is certainly a sense of engagement in the present system—though I would also have to say that there are inefficiencies when the individual countries take up their six-month duties—but the promise made in the Convention, and after, was that countries would still be engaged in some sort of rotating vice-presidential role. Will the Minister elaborate further on that?
Treaty of Lisbon (No. 7)
Proceeding contribution from
Michael Connarty
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 February 2008.
It occurred during Debates on treaty on Treaty of Lisbon (No. 7).
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