Future EU president Hungary feels that neither Croatia's accession treaty nor any other document should be linked to Lisbon Treaty changes which would provide instruments for the establishment of a permanent mechanism for solving future debt crises in the eurozone, Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi said in Brussels on Monday.
If heads of state or government adopt in December a decision on the establishment of a permanent mechanism for solving financial crises, the Hungarian EU presidency will advocate that the Lisbon Treaty be changed in the simplest and shortest way and this should not be linked to Croatia's accession treaty or any other document, Martonyi said at a monthly meeting of European Union foreign ministers.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has been entrusted with drafting Lisbon Treaty amendments before a summit in December and examine how they can be carried out in the simplest way so as to avoid any possible surprise similar to what happened in Ireland with the ratification of the Treaty. One of the options is to add minor and strictly defined Lisbon Treaty amendments to Croatia's accession treaty, which has to be ratified by EU countries anyway.
