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MEPs back plan to save EU constitution

The European Parliament has adopted a plan aiming to revive the EU constitution, while rejecting attempts to acknowledge the need for a revision of the original text.

"The constitution is not dead. That is the outcome of today's decision," commented the parliamentary rapporteur on the issue, Austrian green MEP Johannes Voggenhuber.

The report he drew up along with British liberal member Andrew Duff argues that the EU charter should come into force by 2009, to pave the way for futu...

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