Despite strong lobbying from the Vatican and representatives of the Orthodox Church in Europe, the preamble of the draft treaty establishing the Constitution for Europe - produced by the European Convention in June - has resisted any reference to Christianity.
France along with Turkey are the main countries contending such a reference.
"France is a lay state and as such she does not have a habit of calling for insertions of a religious nature into constitutional texts", the Fren...
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