The Convention on the Future of Europe has started work on some of it most difficult articles for its draft constitutional treaty.
They concern what to do when a country voluntarily wants to leave the new Union and ratification of the new treaty.
The articles are both politically and legally very awkward and have been the subject of some discussion in the Convention's steering committee, the presidium.
Recognising how emotive the issues are, the presidium has decided to leav...
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