In each case the declared intention is only to create instruments within the framework of the treaties to ensure more effective compliance with the stability pact.
The German and French proposed deal might not require the unanimous support of all EU states if it was conducted within the framework of existing treaties – something Downing Street has long said it might.
It would have been negotiated to a settlement firmly within the restructuring aid framework of the European Coal and Steel Community treaty, the founding treaty of the European economic and social model.
They want to preserve much of the existing framework of arms control treaties.
The agreement would see cooperation in four areas "developed in the framework of the current treaties in the years ahead".
Even so, he encouraged governments to work "within the framework of the current treaties," saying that would allow "more rapid progress".
Francois Hollande, the French President, said: "David Cameron spoke about the major interest of a country that could slip away from the EU: we can understand this political domestic issue, but at the same time there is no such thing as a veto. in Europe we need to learn to live together in the framework of rules and treaties, there's no other way".
"There could later be a change in the treaty, but first, within the framework of the current treaty, we need to do the maximum on strengthening prevention, on sanctions," he said.
The team arrived to start its work "within the framework of the nonproliferation treaty," said the spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Khalil Moussavi.
"She simply listened to the fact we have negotiated an agreement within the framework of the" nonproliferation treaty, the Australian official said.
