An important step in the progress towards a European Constitution took place on Thursday. Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the chairman of the Convention on the Future of Europe presented the outline of such a constitution to his colleagues in the Convention’s steering committee – or presidium. A short document consisting of just a few pages with some twenty chapter headings, it contained one very controversial point.\n \nAccording to insiders, Mr Giscard wants to found a whole new EU system with t...
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