Signing ceremony


On Friday 29 October 2004 Heads of State or government and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 25 Member States of the European Union signed in Rome the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe  as well as the Final Act .

The ceremony took place at Campidoglio in the Sala Degli Orazi and Curiazi, the same room in which the 6 original Member States signed the Treaty establishing the European Community in 1957.

The candidate countries Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey signed the Final Act. Croatia was not signing the Final Act, but attended the ceremony.


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Room Giulio Cesare

Signature by the Dutch delegation

Group photo

 

This Treaty can only enter into force when it has been ratified by each of the signatory countries in accordance with its own constitutional procedures.