• Source: Signatories to the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed in Rome on 29 October 2004 by 53 senior political figures from the 25 member states of the European Union. In most cases heads of state designated plenipotentiaries to sign the treaty, but some presidents also signed on behalf of states which were republics. Most designated plenipotentiaries were prime ministers and foreign ministers.




List of signatories


For President Heinz Fischer of Austria:
Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor
Ursula Plassnik, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For King Albert II of Belgium:
Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister
Karel De Gucht, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Tassos Papadopoulos of Cyprus:
Tassos Papadopoulos, President
George Iacovou, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic:
Stanislav Gross, Prime Minister
Cyril Svoboda, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For Queen Margrethe II of Denmark:
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister
Per Stig Møller, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Arnold Rüütel of Estonia:
Juhan Parts, Prime Minister
Kristiina Ojuland, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Tarja Halonen of Finland:
Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister
Erkki Tuomioja, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Jacques Chirac of France:
Jacques Chirac, President
Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister
Michel Barnier, Minister of Foreign Affairs
For President Horst Köhler of Germany:
Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor
Joschka Fischer, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chancellor
For President Costis Stephanopoulos of Greece:
Kostas Karamanlis, Prime Minister
Petros Molyviatis, Minister of Foreign Affairs
For President Ferenc Mádl of Hungary:
Ferenc Gyurcsány, Prime Minister
László Kovács, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Mary McAleese of Ireland:
Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach
Dermot Ahern, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi of Italy:
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister
Franco Frattini, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga of Latvia:
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President
Indulis Emsis, Prime Minister
Artis Pabriks, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania:
Valdas Adamkus, President
Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, Prime Minister
Antanas Valionis, Minister of Foreign Affairs
For Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg:
Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister
Jean Asselborn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration
For President Eddie Fenech Adami of Malta:
Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister
Michael Frendo, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands:
Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister
Bernard Bot, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Aleksander Kwaśniewski of Poland:
Marek Belka, Prime Minister
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Jorge Sampaio of Portugal:
Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes, Prime Minister
António Victor Martins Monteiro, Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Portuguese Communities
For President Ivan Gašparovič of Slovakia:
Mikuláš Dzurinda, Prime Minister
Eduard Kukan, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For President Janez Drnovšek of Slovenia:
Anton Rop, Prime Minister
Ivo Vajgl, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For King Juan Carlos I of Spain:
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, President of the Government
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, Minister for External Affairs and Cooperation
For the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden:
Göran Persson, Prime Minister
Laila Freivalds, Minister for Foreign Affairs
For Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom:
Tony Blair, Prime Minister
Jack Straw, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs




Candidate countries


Representatives of three candidate countries also signed the Final Act of the treaty as observers.

From Bulgaria:
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prime Minister
Solomon Passy, Minister for Foreign Affairs
From Romania:
Ion Iliescu, President
Mircea Geoană, Minister for Foreign Affairs
From Turkey:
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister
Abdullah Gül, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Croatian representatives attended the ceremony but did not sign.

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• Treaty establishing the European Defence Community
• Treaty of Paris (1951)
• Euratom Treaty
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• Treaty of Lisbon
• Treaties of the European Union