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principle grew out of the notion of ‘enhanced cooperation’ and was given constitutional status with the 2001 Treaty of Nice; it allows states to opt out of individual decisions without inhibiting or blocking the desire of the other members to move forward. In other words, it pushes decision-making forward by providing a feasible alternative to the unit veto still available in Pillar II without
addition to the mutual recognition of judicial decisions, the member states also agreed on the need for enhanced judicial cooperation, an objective facilitated with the creation of a European Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust) in 2002. The 2001 Treaty of Nice provided the constitutional basis for enhancing judicial cooperation; in the framework decision creating Eurojust, the Council of Ministers