Las regiones ante la Carta de Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea

Abstract

Before the “institutional reform CIG” at Nice, that opened the discussion on the deepening democracy and on the legitimacy of the Union, the Regions Committee and especially the Basque Country, although formally excluded from the Convention that had the commission to elaborate the Charter, worked intensely in favour of its approval. In spite of the fact that the Charter was finally approved as a political statement, the Committee continues supporting firmly the binding character thereof, in spite of the discrepancies emerged in the Committee itself, since the Charter could be the embryo of a future European Constitution.