The European Parliament wants the end of WEU

(B2) The hatchet is unearthed. In the report voted on Wednesday on the PeSDC, the European Parliament calls " the countries of the European Union members of the Western European Union (WEU) to put an end to the modified Brussels Treaty of 1954 », after the introduction of a mutual assistance clause in the Lisbon Treaty.

« The European Parliament is the only supranational institution that can legitimately claim democratic monitoring of the Union's security and defense policy they add. " The WEU Assembly - which owes its existence to a treaty, the modified Brussels Treaty, which has not been signed by all the Member States of the European Union - is not legally empowered to exercise a parliamentary follow-up on CSDP”.

The Parliament would prefer to develop, directly, with the national parliaments, the " possibilities offered by the Treaty of Lisbon, to make full use of its Protocol No 1 to the Treaty »