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The Belgian EU Presidency - Setting Europe Back into Action and Laying the Future Institutional Groundwork
02/09/2010
Author : Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos (Spain)
By S. Andoura | Elcano ARI 126/2010
 
Belgium took over the Presidency of the EU on 1 July 2010 from Spain and began it in the midst of a national political crisis. Following the examples of the Danish (1993), Italian (1996) and Czech (2009) Presidencies, it is Belgium’s turn to preside over the Union with a government in resignation. The Presidency comes in a context of European economic, financial and social crises and at the end of a transitional period for the implementation of the new Lisbon Treaty. In this difficult context, will Belgium be able to confront the double challenge of managing the EU Presidency in this crucial period while at the same time overhauling its own national constitutional foundations?

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