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Diana Wallis warns on EU Reform Treaty opt-outs
January 9, 2008 5:00 PM
Diana Wallis MEP met a delegation from the House of Lords today, 9 January, to give oral evidence on the impact of the EU Reform Treaty. She emphasised in particular the importance of developments in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, which includes policies in the field of criminal but also civil law.
Diana argued that the opt-outs, which will be extended to the whole Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, are not positive for the UK in the long-term and that they lessen the UK's influence in the Council, on the Commission, and increasingly also prejudice the work of its MEPs. Added to this is the fact that the civil law area is so closely connected to the achievement of an internal market in goods, services and capital, that any retreat or variable geometry in the latter area will inevitably produce serious disruptions in the former.
Click here to access the House of Lords' relevant sub-committee website:
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lords_s_comm_e.cfm
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