The currently effective qualified majority voting rules are defined in the Treaty of Nice.

Signing the Treaty of Nice

Monaco remained in this position until 1860, when by the Treaty of Turin, Sardinia ceded to France the surrounding county of Nice ( as well as Savoy ).

However, EU institutions are bound under article 6 of the EU Treaty of Nice to respect human rights under the Convention.

In February 2001, European leaders met at Nice to negotiate and sign what is now the Treaty of Nice amending the institutions of the European Union.

After the treaty annexing Nice and Savoy to France, signed in Turin on March 1860 ( Treaty of Turin ), the north-western slopes of the range became part of French repubblic.

The outcome of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle showed his qualities as negotiator also, as he was returned the lost provinces of Nice and Savoy, and obtained Vigevano as well as other lands in the Pianura Padana.

France indeed only gained Nice and Savoy after the Treaty of Turin was signed in March 1860, after Cavour had been reinstalled as Prime Minister, and a deal with the French was struck for plebiscites to take place in the Central Italian Duchies.

The Treaty of Nice was signed by European leaders on 26 February 2001 and came into force on 1 February 2003.

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.

The Nice Treaty was attacked by many people as a flawed compromise.

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The Treaty of Nice provides for new rules on closer co-operation, the rules introduced in the Treaty of Amsterdam being viewed as unworkable, and hence these rules have not yet been used.

In response to the failed sanctions against Austria following a coalition including Jörg Haider's party having come to power, and fears about possible future threats to the stability of the new member states to be admitted in enlargement, the Treaty of Nice for the first time adopted formal rules for the application of sanctions against a Member State.

In all the EU member states the Treaty of Nice was ratified by parliamentary procedure, except in Ireland where the government decided that a constitutional amendment would be required.

To the surprise of the Irish government and the other EU member states Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Nice in June 2001.

The Irish government, having obtained the Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, decided to have another referendum on the Treaty of Nice on Saturday, 19 October 2002.

They also claimed that the Treaty of Nice would create a two-tier EU, which might marginalise Ireland.

It was widely accepted that the Treaty of Nice has failed to deal with the basic question of wide-ranging institutional reform, the European Union institutions being widely viewed as overly complicated, and hence the establishment of the European Convention, leading to a new IGC in 2004, was agreed at Nice.

Nor did the Treaty of Nice deal with the question of the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the Treaty ; that was also left for the 2004 IGC after the opposition of the United Kingdom.

The first regular auto racing venue was Nice, France, run in late March, 1897, as a " Speed Week.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

Alfonso IV, called the Kind ( also the Gentle or the Nice, ) ( 1299, Naples – 24 January 1336 ) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso III ) from 1327 to his death.

He was especially impressed by the flip side " Treat Me Nice " as this featured a piano.

Between 1614 and 1713, Barcelonnette was the seat of one of the four prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Senate of Nice.

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

His love of strong tea was legendary — he had Fortnum & Mason's tea brought to him in Catalonia and in 1946 published " A Nice Cup of Tea " on how to make it.

The CEA claimed that there was little circulation ( and hence little need for concern ) at the dump site between Nice and Corsica, but French public opinion sided with the oceanographers rather than with the CEA atomic energy scientists.

The Jules Rimet Trophy was taken to Uruguay for the first FIFA World Cup aboard the Conte Verde, which set sail from Villefranche-sur-Mer, just south of Nice, on 21 June 1930.

Counterculture icon Tommy Chong was one of those charged, for his part in financing and promoting Chong Glass / Nice Dreams, a company started by his son Paris.

It links Nice to Ventimiglia ( Italy ) through the principality, and was opened in 1868.

Their production work as BeMusic was collected on two LTM compilation CDs, Cool As Ice: The BeMusic Productions and Twice As Nice ( which also included production work by Donald Johnson, of A Certain Ratio, and Arthur Baker ).

In 1937, he was appointed chief executive of what later became the University of Nice.

He travelled in the suite of the Pope during the papal visit to Nice, where Paul III was promoting a truce between François I and Charles V. He then accompanied the young Cardinal Farnese on a trip to Spain, France and the Spanish Netherlands to help implement the terms of the truce.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

Garibaldi was born in Nizza ( now Nice, France ) in 1807.

To sell his regulator in English-speaking countries Cousteau coined the Aqua-Lung label, which was first licensed to the U. S. Divers company ( the American division of Air Liquide in the USA ) and later sold alongside with La Spirotechnique and U. S. Divers to finally constitute the name of the company itself, Aqua-Lung / La Spirotechnique, nowadays sited in Carros, near Nice.

A similar stone circular arrangement believed to be around 380 thousand years old was discovered at Terra Amata, near Nice, France.

It was their third album Nice ( 1969 ) where they charted a course for symphonic prog with its mix of psychedelic rock, jazz, blues and classical elements.

Witold Marian Gombrowicz ( August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France ) was a Polish novelist and dramatist.

There was however an 1881 French performance given as a Benefit, in the Cercle de la Méditerranée Salon at Nice, organized by Sophie Cruvelli, in which she took the role of Elsa.

The Nice Carnival was held as far back as 1294, and is still held annually, attracting over a million visitors yearly during the two weeks preceding Lent.

Two were added from the new Savoyard territory, while the department of Alpes-Maritimes was created from Nice and a portion of the Var department.

Charles, in contrast, was disposed towards a rigid administration ; he ordered inquests in 1252 and again in 1278 to ascertain his rights Charles broke the traditional powers of the great towns ( Nice, Grasse, Marseille, Arles, Avignon ) and aroused considerable hostility by his punctilious insistence on enjoying his full rights and fees.