Website: European Reform Forum

The European Reform Forum has been established in the UK by a cross-section of senior parliamentarians, economists, businessmen and commentators and is chaired by the former Home Secretary, Lord Waddington. It has been created to conduct an evidence-based inquiry in public into the operation of the existing EU Treaties. It will do this in the manner of a parliamentary select committee, cross-examining witnesses from (amongst others) politicians, businessmen, economists, lawyers, historians, academics and administrators from all sides of the debate in the UK, in Europe and internationally. The remit of the ERF's inquiry can be summarised as examining the case for maintaining the existing EU Treaties, and to test the Prime Minister Tony Blair's assertion that it is possible to promote competitiveness in the UK and Europe while also supporting the EU 'social model' and not renegotiating the Treaties. A full report and conclusions will be issued before the close of the UK Presidency of the EU in December 2005. All transcripts, press releases and reports will be available on this website.

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Wikipedia: European Reform Forum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Reform_Forum

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