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Westerwelle: latest addition to chorus of pro-referendum voices in Germany (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

EU referendum idea gains momentum in Germany

German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle on Sunday (12 August) became the latest in a line of politicians calling for a referendum on handing over more powers to Brussels as part of a new EU constitution.

"I hope that we have a real European constitution and that there will also be a referendum on it," he told the Sunday edition of Germany's biggest-circulation newspaper, Bild.

The idea to hold a referendum on what Chancellor Angela Merkel sees as the only way out of the crisis -...

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Westerwelle: latest addition to chorus of pro-referendum voices in Germany (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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