Convention broadly supports draft EU constitution

Although they had little over an hour to debate the draft outline for a future EU constitution on Tuesday, Convention delegates were welcoming of the "skeletal" proposal as a start-off point. However, as soon as the details of the outline were examined, criticisms were raised.

Asked by Convention president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to just debate the "structure," it was clear to all delegates that the task ahead, "putting the flesh on the bones" as several speakers put it, was where the ...