An alternative to the EU Constitution
- The cover of the book "From Constitution to Lisbon Treaty." (Photo: www.bonde.com)
The inter-group SOS Democracy in the European Parliament put forward an alternative to the proposed EU Constitution. The first draft had 15 points and was presented as a minority opinion of the Convention.
After the referendums on the constitutional proposal in France and the Netherlands on 29 May and 1 June 2005, the group put forward a seven-point alternative. Jens-Peter Bonde presented a discussion paper outlining a concept under which all the existing Treaties would be recast into a cooperation agreement comprising only 47 articles. This is now published in the book "From EU Constitution to Lisbon Treaty".
The SOS democracy group sent 8 suggested amendments to the intergovernmental conference revising the EU Constitution in 2007.
