The biggest pan-European political party has called for continued ratification of the EU constitution and strongly rejected cherry-picking from its proposals.
But, despite this, several leading centre-right politicians have hinted that at least slight changes may be necessary to revive the treaty.
The European People's Party on Friday (31 March) agreed a manifesto following its party congress in Rome, which argues that the bloc's current "political problems and institutional weak...
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