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An error sneaked into the first version of the EU Constitution in France (Photo: Dutch EU Presidency)

France pulps subversive Constitution text

The French government destroyed some 160,000 copies of the EU Constitution at the end of last year, following the discovery that an annotation saying that one of the articles contained "incoherent vocabulary" had inadvertently been printed and published alongside text of the Constitution

"We released the document at the end of November 2004. And two or three weeks later an alert reader saw the note and called us", a spokesperson for the Documentation française, the body in charge of edi...

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An error sneaked into the first version of the EU Constitution in France (Photo: Dutch EU Presidency)

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