Brussels to defend 'core' of EU constitution in treaty talks

The European Commission is starting to take a position in the expected re-negotiations of the EU constitution, with communication commissioner Margot Wallstrom saying the "core" of the current text should be the "departure point."

Commissioner Wallstrom said on Wednesday (18 October) that "the commission would not like to depart too much from the constitutional treaty" amid a slowly re-emerging debate on the fate of the charter, after French and Dutch voters rejected it in 2005.

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