October European Council
updated: October 21, 2010 13:10
As euinside has already turned it into tradition, we will again be in Brussels for the European Council on October 28/29. This time, however, our expectations are the Council to be much more interesting than we have forecast so far. The reason is that, while focusing on the reform of EU's economic governance, the Council will open a wound that is still unhealed - it will be discussing whether amendments to the Lisbon Treaty should be made, the writing, adopting and ratification of which took almost 10 years. Initially the Council, which is usually being held in December, was withdrawn in October so that there would be enough time the adopted economic governance to be enforced as of January 1st, 2011. Now, with calls growing stronger for amendments to the Treaties, it will be hard for us to forecast what will be the outcome of the two-day summit, which, in fact, makes the event even more interesting.