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Loyalty and Solidarity

Article 10 EC, Article 6 EU, Article I-5 Draft Convention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2004

Peter G. Xuereb
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Extract

While the Union's powers and responsibilities are ever on the increase and co-operation deepens as the Union begins to take positions more easily in the areas of freedom, security, justice and defense, it is seeking to keep the Member States and the Union together via the duties of loyalty. These are spelled out in general terms in Article I-5, and in more specific terms in specific contexts, such as those of the Common Foreign and Security Policy [Article I-15(2)]. Article I-5 is entitled ‘Relations between the Union and the Member States’, but it is also central to the relations between the Member States themselves in terms, for example, of the exercise of their voting rights in the Council of Ministers. The Article consolidates provisions that are currently scattered over various Treaties but not without adding some novelties.

Keywords

European ConstitutionEuropean Constitutional LawEuropean ConventionEuropean UnionLoyaltySolidarityMember States' obligationsInheritence of EuropeNational IdentityMutual Loyalty
Type
Commitments Between States
Information
European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 17 - 20
Copyright
© T.M.C. Asser Press 2005

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