European Union (Amendment) Bill

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 5:18 pm on 21 January 2008.

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Photo of David Miliband David Miliband Foreign Secretary 5:18, 21 January 2008

When I say, as my hon. Friend does, that the treaty is different in structure, it is because the proposed constitution was legally unprecedented: it abolished all previous European treaties and refounded the European Union. This treaty, like the four previous treaties, amends the original founding document of the European Union.