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MEPs call for co-ordinated referenda on EU Constitution

MEPs have called on member states to hold their referenda on the European Constitution within the same week next year in a bid to reduce the chances of a no vote.

The days running up to the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War - 5-8 May - were chosen by MEPs for their "symbolic value".

The resolution, passed on Thursday (14 October), goes on to call for the ratification process in all member states to be completed by June 2006.

It calls for the Constitutio...

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