ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC

COMMISSION OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS

Draft Resolution No. 211 /X

Portugal's Participation Report in the Construction Process

European

21. Year-2006

Appreciating the participation of Portugal in the process of the construction of the Union

European during the year 2006, the Assembly of the Republic resolves:

1-Analyze the report provided for in Article 5 (3) of Law No 43/2006 of 25

of August, within the framework of the regular consultation and exchange of information between the

Assembly of the Republic;

2-Reassert the understanding, already previously expressed in diverse

resolutions, that the Government's report cited above should have a character

essentially political or, seek, at least, to relive the interpretation

policy of the various components;

3-Underline the efforts made within the framework of the Union to promote a

effective debate on the future of Europe in the wake of the difficulties

lifted by the results of the referendums on the Constitutional Treaty in

France and in the Netherlands. That debate is a sign of democratic culture and

could be a factor in affirming a "European spirit" and contributing

for the deepening of the European construction process;

4-Highlight the important role Portugal has sought to play

on that and other items on the European agenda, as a preparation of your

Presidency of the Union in the second half of this year and as a sign of its

constant commitment to European issues;

5-Record the efforts made, either by the Union or by the candidate states,

in terms of enlargement to new members, namely, in what it says

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respect to Bulgaria and Romania, which have come to become members of the Union in the

day January 1, 2007.

6-Salient the continuation of the negotiations that will be able to lead to the entrance

of Croatia, the Former Republic of Macedonia and Turkey, through the

reach of a broad consensus as to new enlargements;

7-Salient that the appreciation of this report releases the effort, the input and the

broad consensus among the political forces represented in the Assembly of the

Republic as to the integration of Portugal into the European Union, without prejudice to the

different appreciation of the priorities and guidelines followed in this process.

Assembly of the Republic, May 24, 2007