The debate followed a statement by EU High Representative Baroness Ashton, following the country's disputed parliamentary elections in December 2011.
Croatian daily Novi List says that the new union "is already ridiculed and declared a 'Solania'", a reference to EU High Representative Javier Solana.
The treaty - formally passed at the end of 2009 - created the position of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs to oversee the EU's foreign affairs responsibilities.
And German Green MEP Franziska Brantner hit out at EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Baroness Ashton, accusing her of deploying "empty phrases" on human rights in Egypt.
The EU High Representative for these talks has offered to meet Iran in Vienna, and thus far -- and despite what they said in New York, we have not heard back on that invitation.
The EU Treaty would also expand the policy areas subject to "qualified majority voting" - rather than allowing all 27 member states a veto - and establish an EU high representative for foreign affairs.
Mr Wammen was addressing the plenary on behalf of Baroness Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
He welcomed the fact that the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs has to be formally questioned and approved by MEPs.
Mr Farage had been strongly critical of the appointment of Cathy Ashton as the EU's High Representative for foreign affairs, who he described as having "married well" and "risen without trace".
Italian centre-right MEP Licia Ronzulli accused EU officials, including High Representative Baroness Ashton, of ignoring their plight.
It would also establish a new post of president of the European Council - the grouping of EU states' leaders - and a high representative for foreign affairs.
Javier Solana, the so-called "High Representative" of the EU -- in effect its foreign policy supreme -- is working on the command structure and seeking to ease the worries of countries like Turkey, currently in NATO but not in the EU, that they will be squeezed out of future decisions on European security.
It created the External Action Service, which is the EU's diplomatic corps, established at its head the post of high representative for foreign affairs and abolished the merry-go-round of foreign-policymaking by EU presidencies that formed new sets of priorities every six months.
His supporting cast includes Sir John Cunliffe, UK Permanent Representative to the EU, who is high in the demonology of Conservative eurosceptics.
And Sir Jon Cunliffe, UK Permanent Representative to the EU, a man high in eurosceptic demonology, is before the European Scrutiny Committee, as it continues its inquiry into the Commons' system for scrutinising EU legislation, at 4.30pm.
The talks have been personally presided over by Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency and who served as the first high representative in Bosnia.
Conteders for the high representative job include Ursula Plassnik, a former Austrian foreign minister, Olli Rehn, the Finnish EU commissioner, and Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, whose brilliance is not matched by his popularity in capitals such as Paris (where he is seen as too pro-Turkey) and Berlin (where officials dislike his tough stance on Russia).
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