Five minutes with Lord Kerr of Kinlochard: “The Constitutional Treaty was clearly ahead of its time”

It is now ten years since the Member States of the European Union signed the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. The Treaty, which was subsequently rejected in referendums in France and the Netherlands, ultimately inspired the Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force in December 2009. In a discussion with EUROPP’s editor Stuart Brown, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, the Secretary General of the European Convention which produced the Draft Constitutional Treaty, discusses the failures of the process, the impact on the Commission, and the attempts to reform the UK’s relationship with the European Union currently being pursued by David Cameron.