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In mid-June 1997, the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union published the documents of the Amsterdam meeting of the European Council, including the draft of the Treaty of Amsterdam (hereinafter referred to as "Ayo"), adopted by the EU Summit. The draft Ayo has six parts and 19 chapters. From the point of view of the content of the provisions, the Ayo is an amendment to the existing treaties of the European Union (mainly the Maastricht Treaty and the Treaty of Rome), mainly by rewriting, adding or abridged the provisions of the existing treaties and annexes such as protocols, declarations, declarations, etc., and making amendments and additions to them.

The first two chapters of the Ayo are written to strengthen the rights of the citizens of the Union and their protection.

On the morning of October 2, 1997, the Ministers of the 15 member states of the European Union formally signed the Treaty of Amsterdam at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. European Commission President Sante said in his speech that the Ayo agreement shows the EU's progress in deepening integration. The Ayo established the legal basis for the construction of a "social Europe".

In terms of the common foreign security policy, EU countries have also shown a certain degree of political will or will. At the same time, however, he pointed out that the reform of the voting mechanism had not achieved the desired goals. Sant acknowledges that European integration has reached a stage where every step forward is very difficult.

The annex to the treaty was annexed to the treaty, and the joint declaration issued by France, Italy and Belgium in mid-September was added. The statement made it clear that the Ayo has made no substantial progress in reforming EU institutions to strengthen the EU's decision-making power. The Treaty of Amsterdam, concluded in mid-June 1997, is the third EU treaty after the Treaties of Rome and Maastricht.

In preparation for the treaty, which laid the foundation for the enlargement of the European Union, the EU member states have been engaged in painstaking negotiations for 15 months in the form of inter-conference meetings.

On February 7, 1992, all member states of the European Community signed the Treaty on the European Union in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and reached an agreement on the establishment of an economic and monetary union and a political union, further completing the blueprint for European political and economic integration. Although the Treaty on European Union created the European Union, the integration of the European Union was not complete, and article n, paragraph 2, of the Treaty on European Union also provided that a meeting should be convened in 1996 by representatives of Member States** to review how the Treaty on European Union should be amended to meet the needs of the development of the European Union.

On March 29, 1996, the European Union Summit was held in Turin, Italy, to negotiate various issues related to the integration of the European Union, and on October 2, 1997, at the EU Summit held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Treaty of Amsterdam was signed by the ministers of various countries on the results of the consultations.

In 1997, the European Union signed the Treaty of Amsterdam

The Amsterdam Treaty is the Treaty of Amsterdam Amending the Treaty of the European Union, the treaties establishing the European Union Communities and Certain Related Acts) is a treaty signed on 2 October 1997 and entered into force on 1 May 1999, which mainly amends the Treaties of Paris in 1951, Rome in 1957 and Maastricht in 1992, and takes the principles of democracy, respect for human rights, freedom and the rule of law as the basis of the treaties.