But several issues remain open ahead of what is set to be a defining summit for the treaty negotiations beginning on Thursday (21 June).
These are: the question of symbols (such as the flag, hymn and anthem) and whether they should be included and whether it should be explicitly stated that EU law has primacy over national law; "possible terminological changes"; the treatment of the Charter of Fundamental Rights; the "specificity" of the common foreign and security policy; the "delimitation of competences" between the EU and the member states and the role of national parliaments.
Despite numerous requests by Poland however, the voting system remains off the list of topics that require "further discussion."
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