suggested citation: S. Dell’Acqua, La proposta di riforma dei trattati approvata dal Parlamento europeo nel novembre 2023 in una prospettiva storica, lceonline (www.lceonline.eu), 3/2024, II/Rubriche, p. 21 ss.
key words: European Parliament, Treaty reforms, European Union, constitutional affairs Committee, Conference on the Future of Europe, Spinelli treaty
abstract: Fifteen years after the Lisbon Treaty came into force in 2009, the institutional reform yard has been reopened: the convening of the Conference on the Future of Europe led, on 22 November last, to the European Parliament’s approval of the Report on Treaty Changes drafted by some members of the Constitutional Affairs Commission. This is an ambitious project aimed at abolishing the unanimity rule, strengthening the Union’s capacity for action in key areas such as foreign and defence policy, and calling for the convening of a Convention to discuss treaty reform. From a historical point of view, a precedent with which this report can be compared is the Spinelli Treaty approved by the European Parliament in 1984, although some similarities and significant differences can be identified. The European elections of June 2024 reconfirmed a pro-European majority, but so far in the European Council the EU governments have not taken a position on the convening of a Convention on the reform of the Treaties, effectively ignoring the proposal made by the European Parliament.
