In this interview, António Vitorino, Member of the European Commission with special responsibility for justice and home affairs from 1999 to 2004 and Special Adviser in 2007 to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), outlines the main differences between the 2004 Constitutional Treaty and the amending Treaty of Lisbon.

In this interview, António Vitorino, representative of the Commission to the European Convention from 2002 to 2003 who participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) as Commission representative from 2003 to 2004, comments on the highlights of the Convention: the dynamic of debate resulting from its composition and its members’ determination to reach agreement.

In this interview, António Vitorino, representative of the Commission to the European Convention from 2002 to 2003 who participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) as Commission representative from 2003 to 2004, emphasises the originality of the Convention’s method which was based, in particular, on the diversity of its composition and the openness and transparency of the debates.