EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday are set to agree that the Constitution be signed in Rome at the end of October.
Diplomatic sources have told the EUobserver that 29 October is the date most likely to be chosen after consultation with most of the 25 member states.
The date is some three weeks earlier Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi previous suggestion.
Mr Berlusconi's unilateral comments that it should be 20 November caused irritation in the Dutch ...
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