The European Constitution will remain without a reference to Christianity, under new proposals by the Irish EU Presidency.
In a paper dealing with eleventh-hour issues circulated to governments on Sunday (12 June), Dublin moderates the lengthy preamble to the Constitution but does not add any reference to God or Christianity.
The preamble keeps the wording "drawing inspiration from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of ...
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