The Union needs to reform the founding treaties in a way which would enjoy broad public support.

In European Union law, the founding treaties are the main primary legislation.

The founding treaties state that all member states are indivisibly sovereign and of equal value.

In the highest rank come the founding treaties, which are concluded by the Member States.

Returning to Community legislation, the founding treaties lay down certain basic rules on the publication and commencement of such texts.

Let me remind you, should it be necessary, that freedom of movement for European citizens is a fundamental right enshrined in the founding Treaties.

This confirms the analogy which has often been drawn between the founding treaties of the European Communities and a written constitution in a sovereign state.

This goes against the fundamental principle of non-discrimination enshrined in the founding treaties of this Union.

The report tramples on subsidiarity by dictating rules on family policy and other ethical issues, which is contrary to the founding treaties.

By moving closer to the model proposed in the founding Treaties, we will perfect the EU's institutions and they will progress.

These first established the European Community and the EU, and then made amendments to those founding treaties.

In not liberalising these the EU remains below the objective of the founding treaties of 1957: there is no common European market.

As I understand it, the Commission's role is to make sure that the Community operates as a community and in accordance with its founding treaties.

On the one hand, access to the institutions' activities is a consequence of the principle of transparency of their operation laid down in the founding treaties.

The purpose of the treaty was to amend the founding treaties of the European Union (EU).

Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU's founding treaties.

The picture that emerges of the founding treaties is thus one, not of immutable texts, but of texts subject to periodical evolution.

It has the tough but exhilarating task of carrying through the revision of the Union's founding Treaties and delivering the first European Constitution.

This is anchored in the founding treaties, and since then it has been restated in numerous institutional agreements and in numerous legal acts.

The Euratom Treaty is one of the founding Treaties of the Union, along with the Treaty of Rome.

I agree it is important to be close to the European citizens; it is also important to respect the founding treaties on which the whole Union is based.

An Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) is the formal procedure for negotiating amendments to the founding treaties of the European Union.

The Reform Treaty literally re-writes the EU Treaties and the founding Treaties of the European Communities.

When the founding treaties of the Community were signed in the 1950s, emphasis was laid on the necessity for competition and free market forces, especially in the Treaty of Rome.

Although the existing founding treaties do not provide a sufficient legal basis for this essential regulation, it is now crucial that the Convention works on a new constitutional basis to ensure media plurality.