Jorge Braga de Macedo
President of the European Affairs Commitee
Assembly of the Republic of Portugal 
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Last updated 8 July, 2001
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On July 4, at the invitation of the current president Manuel dos Santos, MP, I participated, together with the current and former ministers of foreign affairs and of other former committee presidents, in a panel on the future of Europe. I distributed the section on European architecture of the  paper  titled  Globalisation and Institutional Change: A Development Perspective  and also drew on my  presentation Is Portugal a victim of the "euro holdup"?
During the 1995-99 parliamentary term, I was called to testify on European matters on several occasions. In April 1997, I testified at hearings on Portugal and Economic and Monetary Union called by the European Affairs Committee, under the chairmanship of Azores socialist José Medeiros Ferreira, MP. In May 1999, I testified on the revision of law 20/94.

My term
On March 9, 1994 I was unanimously elected President of the European Affairs Commitee, a post I held until the end of my term in October 1995.
In that capacity, I introduced a new law on parliamentary review and evaluation of European affairs in April 1994 (law 20/94) and prepared a report on the 1996 Inter-Governmental Conference which was unanimously voted in April 1995 (Resolution 21/95). Other Resolutions based on law 20/94 are nº 19, 20, 31, 32.
I led the delegations to the Conference of European Affairs Committees (Cosac) during the Greek, German and French Presidencies.

Official documents contain a description of these measures, including English translations of the two legal documents presented in:
Portugal na União Europeia, lei de acompanhamento e apreciação
Acompanhamento e Apreciação da Revisão do Tratado da União Europeia na Conferência Inter-Governamental de 1996, vol 1
 
 
 
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