In this connection, I believe that the EU should look at its own governance and adjust it where necessary in order to ensure that its institutions and decision-making processes remain effective and accountable, and that it can maintain its capacity to function, for the sake of current Member States as well as in view of further enlargement.
The institutional reform treaty approved by the EU summit in Lisbon on October 19, reshapes the main institutions of the Union – the European Council, the Commission and the Parliament – and takes us a good way toward enhancing the EU’s capacity to function.