An EU Professor II
Professor Anand Menon, the Director of the European Research Institute and Professor of West European Politics University of Birmingham’s interviewed by EurActiv
Claims the Reform Lisbon treaty is not necessary for the smooth running of the EU. He said that just as much legislation was being produced by the EU after the enlargements compared too previously.
Even under the procedures of the Nice Treaty, the enlarged European Union is functioning fine [...] Voting in the Council indicates that the EU has not slowed down at all. It is producing legislation with the same speed as before. There isn’t an institutional crisis to be addressed,” In terms of decision-making, there is no evidence that it has slowed down.
