PART ONE

SUBSTANTIVE AMENDMENTS

Article 1

The Treaty on European Union  shall amended in accordance with the provisions of this Article.

1. After the third recital the following recital shall be inserted:
   `CONFIRMING their attachment to fundamental social rights as defined in the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961 and in the 1989 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers,'
2. The existing seventh recital shall be replaced by the following:
   `DETERMINED to promote economic and social progress for their peoples, taking into account the principle of sustainable development and within the context of the accomplishment of the internal market and of reinforced cohesion and environmental protection, and to implement policies ensuring that advances in economic integration are accompanied by parallel progress in other fields,'
3. The existing ninth and tenth recitals shall be replaced by the following:
   `RESOLVED to implement a common foreign and security policy including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence in accordance with the provisions of Article J. 7, thereby reinforcing the European identity and its independence in order to promote peace, security and progress in Europe and in the world,
   RESOLVED to facilitate the free movement of persons, while ensuring the safety and security of their peoples, by establishing an area of freedom, security and justice, in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty,'
4. In Article A the second paragraph shall be replaced by the following:
   `This Treaty marks a new stage in the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as openly as possible and as closely as possible to the citizen,'
5. Article B shall be replaced by the following:

Article B

The Union shall set itself the following objectives: