Guy Verhofstadt, head of the Belgian government and next rotating President of the European Council, has released details about the composition of the team of consultants commissioned by the federal government of Belgium to contribute to the preparation of the “Laeken Declaration” on the future of the EU, the text that will serve as the basis for the negotiations on the reform of the EU’s institutions. Forming part of the team will be former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato, former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, the French Jacques Delors, who headed the European Commission for ten years, and former Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek (former aide of Lech Walesa at the time of Solidarnosc). The possible inclusion in the team of the English member of parliament and former minister Peter Mandelson is still in doubt.
