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On 14 February 1984, four months before its second election, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a draft treaty establishing European Union. The EP was not merely contributing to the body of ideas which exist concerning the EC’s development; it was providing a constitutional blueprint accompanied by a plausible strategy for its ratification by member states. This blueprint was drafted and adopted by a large majority of nearly 60 national parties represented in the EP. Thus, during its first term of office, the EP had assumed a quasi-constituent role which it had not been assigned by the present treaties.
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G. Amendola, The Italian Communists and the European Elections, (Luxembourg: Communist Group secretariat, 1978) p. 25.
A. Spinelli, ‘Towards European Union’, (Florence: EUI, 1983).
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Cardozo, R., Corbett, R. (1986). The Crocodile Initiative. In: Lodge, J. (eds) European Union: The European Community in Search of a Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08197-4_2
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