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Austria and Belgium urge haste with EU constitution text

Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schussel has said a new EU treaty should be finalised already next year, while Belgium's foreign minister has proposed to lift member states' vetoes over treaty changes.

Mr Schussel, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, has in an interview with the Financial Times, proposed the most ambitious timeframe so far for breaking the union's constitutional deadlock.

"It would be clever if we took a final decision on the [new treat...

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