The Senate,

- fearing that the European Parliament, originated by direct elections, will in no way be associated to the pursuance of the process of integration and democratization of the European Community;

- considering that it indispensable, in a Community based on law, for the organ that represents citizens to exert no influence on the development of the fundamental law (Constitution), represented, in the specific case, by the Treaties of Rome and Paris and by the modified texts of the above;

- Decides not to pass the texts that modify the treaties of Rome and Paris which the intergovernmental conferences are preparing at the moment unless they are previously passed by the European Parliament;

- Asks the government to inform the other members of the European Council of Ministers of such decision.

(submitted by M. Dierickx and colleagues on 27 March 1991).

The Chamber of Representatives,

upon the proposal of the judging Committee charged with European affairs;

A. Given the progress made by the discussions within the intergovernmental Conferences on political, economic and monetary Union;

B. Given the resolutions of the European Parliament on economic and monetary Union of 10 October 1990 (Herman report) and on the Intergovernmental Conferences in the context of the European Parliament's strategy for the European Union (Martin report) of 22 November 1990;

C. Given the resolutions voted by the Foreign and European Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Representatives on 20 November 1990 and by the European Affairs Committee of the Italian Senate on 6 December 1990;

D. Given the final statement of the Conference of the Parliaments of the European Community of 30 November 1990;

1. Decides to ratify the results of the two intergovernmental Conferences on economic and monetary Union only once the Parliament has given a similar opinion on such matters;

2. considers unacceptable any result which would have the effect of blocking or seriously jeopardizing the pursuance of the evolution toward a federal kind of European Union owing to a repetitive use of intergovernmental mechanisms and a concentration of powers in the hands of the European Council.

(Proposal submitted by M. De Gucht, April 1991).