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Spain and Luxembourg adopted the constitution - while voters in France and the Netherlands rejected it (Photo: EUobserver)

Spain against changes in constitution text

The Spanish foreign minister has rejected calls to change the text of the EU constitution, arguing this would be impossible to explain to the Spanish people which already voted on the charter.

Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told Austrian daily Die Presse in an interview on Monday (16 January) "How should I explain to the Spanish people that the text that they have already approved, is not valid anymore?"

A popular referendum in February 2005 saw Spanish citizen...

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Spain and Luxembourg adopted the constitution - while voters in France and the Netherlands rejected it (Photo: EUobserver)

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