In June 1997, in the monthly Federalist journal Crocodile, Marcelino Oreja, Member of the European Commission with special responsibility for Institutional Matters and Preparations for the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) (in agreement with Commission President, Jacques Santer), highlights the progress and the shortcomings of the Treaty of Amsterdam with regard, in particular, to citizens’ rights, the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and the institutions of the European Union.