Translation of "Compétence que la constitution reconnaît au Conseil " (French → English) :

The Council conclusions of 22 May 2008 on adult learning recognise the role of adult learning in addressing early school leaving by offering a second chance to those who reach adulthood without a qualification, focusing especially on basic skills, IT skills and language learning.

The Commission has recently adopted a Communication on European cooperation on schools[28] and welcomes the recognition of the key role of teachers in enhancing language and intercultural skills in Council Conclusions on intercultural competences[29] and on multilingualism[30].

2. Regrets greatly in this regard that, under Article III-231(3), the matters previously subject to consultation, particularly the setting of quotas, prices and quantitative restrictions, are now to be decided by the Council alone, without Parliament's involvement; considers this to be counterproductive in view of the draft Constitution's otherwise visible tendency towards reducing the democratic deficit; reminds the Council that it will make use of its legislative powers to determine as far as possible the content of the conditions f ...[+++]or regulating the matters referred to under Article III-231(3); repeats its demand that matters that have hitherto been subject to the consultation procedure and are considered under the section of the draft Constitution on agriculture, in particular Article III-231(3), to require a Council regulation or decision should in future only fall within the implementing power of the Commission if this is conferred upon it beforehand by Parliament and the Council by means of an act adopted under the codecision procedure;

18. Notes the conclusions on 'communicating Europe'; while recognising that the individual campaigns relating to ratification remain a national responsibility, insists that the European Council has a collective responsibility to bring the Constitution into force as soon as possible, and that some significant leadership is therefore required at EU level to coordinate the campaign for the Constitution; urges the European Council to appoint one or more high-level persons to communicate and inform the European public on the Constitutional Treaty from a truly European perspective;

The Council conclusions of 22 May 2008 on adult learning recognised the key role which adult learning can play in meeting the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, by fostering social cohesion, providing citizens with the skills required to find new jobs and helping Europe to better respond to the challenges of globalisation, and invited the Member States to address a series of specific measures relating to adult learning (4).

The European Constitutional Treaty, often called the Constitution, aimed to repeal and replace with a single text all the existing treaties with the exception of the Euratom Treaty. This text consolidated 50 years of European treaties. Apart from this work of consolidation and simplification of the texts, the Constitution also introduced numerous innovations such as: attribution of legal personality to the Union, clear definition of powers, the possibility of a Member State's withdrawing from the Union, the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, simplification of the Union's instruments of action, creation of the European Fo ...[+++]reign Minister, the formal institutionalisation of the European Council, which will be chaired by an elected president for a period of two and a half years, the definition of a new system of qualified majority voting at the Council, various policy modifications, the disappearance of the pillar structure, the extension of qualified majority voting at the Council and the ordinary legislative procedure (codecision).