A French former minister has said that he is "truly frightened" by the new European Constitution.
In an interview with Le Figaro, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who is a socialist and former interior and defence minister of France, condemned the text for being too economically liberal and in the area of common foreign and security policy of being a tool of "vassalisation to the US".
Mr Chevènement said the treaty "would prevent all autonomous defence policy".
All common defence wi...
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