He contributed little to the last-minute horse-trading over the Amsterdam treaty the successor to Maastricht last June.
The Amsterdam treaty, signed in June 1997, gives unprecedented powers to the European Parliament.
Under the Amsterdam treaty, the parliament won the right to veto the entire team.
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Now the Danes have a chance to do it all again with the Amsterdam treaty.
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It is now enshrined, as a permanent option, through the new flexibility clause in the Amsterdam treaty.
The job, created under the Amsterdam treaty, has yet to be properly defined.
The Britons and Danes will be allowed to opt out of the Amsterdam treaty's plan for common immigration and asylum policies.
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Denmark's Social Democratic prime minister, whose ragbag coalition was unexpectedly re-elected in March, stoutly defends the Amsterdam treaty.
EU's Amsterdam treaty of last June the result will be closer to 50-50.
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Under the Amsterdam treaty, which came into force on May 1st, he along with the parliament has the power to reject commissioners proposed by governments.
The Amsterdam treaty, in force since May, greatly expanded the areas in which no European laws can be passed without the parliament's nod.
The other is that the Amsterdam treaty has given the commission's president enhanced powers over his colleagues, including the right to block their appointment.
So far, however, under the Amsterdam treaty of 1997, each member can veto any move by a self-selected group seeking to undertake special projects.
Mr Hague has said he will impose a three-line whip requiring Tories to vote against ratification of the European Union's Amsterdam treaty, which Tony Blair signed last June.
Yet although subsidiarity, coined at a summit in 1992 and woven into the Amsterdam treaty last year, was a buzzword in Cardiff, Europeans still disagree about what it means.
After last summer's referendum on the Amsterdam treaty, Danish government ministers also made clear that they would like to join the euro though winning a referendum on that would be harder.
EU's new Amsterdam treaty, which came into force on May 1st, gives him power to veto candidates he thinks unsuitable, and also to demote commissioners who disappoint him in office.
One complication is that Ireland's voters will also be voting on whether to approve the European Union's Amsterdam Treaty on the same day and there are some fears that the two issues may get confused.
Another reason was that, thanks to a Supreme Court judgment that led to the setting up of a referendum commission, the same amount of money had to be spent arguing both for and against the Amsterdam treaty.
Is all this enough to secure a new treaty at the Amsterdam summit on June 16th-17th?
But there will be only six weeks between the election and the Amsterdam summit due to witness the new treaty's adoption.
There were further echoes of Mr Major when Mr Blair discussed the inter-governmental conference that is preparing a new treaty to be signed in Amsterdam in mid-June.
Majority voting may be extended in the revision of the Maastricht treaty supposed to be agreed on at the Amsterdam summit in June, but hostility from Britain and others will stop it going at all far.
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The Amsterdam summit in 1997 introduced Mr Blair to the niceties of EU treaty-making, and was followed soon afterwards by the ghastly four-night negotiation of the Nice treaty in 2000.
The treaty is meant to be agreed on by the summit of heads of government in Amsterdam in mid-June.
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