The Treaty of Nice reformed the institutional structure of the European Union so that it could withstand eastward expansion, a task that the Amsterdam Treaty had been meant to accomplish but had failed to address. European leaders signed it on 26 February 2001, and it came into force on 1 February 2003. It amended the Maastricht Treaty, also known as the Treaty on European Union, and the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Community and, before the Maastricht Treaty, the European Economic Community. Its entry into force was in doubt for a time, because Irish voters rejected it in a referendum in June 2001, a result that was reversed in a second referendum held a little over a year later.
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It was signed by European leaders on 26 February 2001 and came into force on 1 February 2003.
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It amended the Maastricht Treaty (or the Treaty on European Union) and the Treaty of Rome (or the Treaty establishing the European Community which, before the Maastricht Treaty, was the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community).
In Group: Trade, Environmental and Institutional Treaties, Introduction, sentence 1
The Treaty of Nice reformed the institutional structure of the European Union to withstand eastward expansion, a task which was originally intended to have been done by the Amsterdam Treaty, but failed to be addressed at the time.
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