'Federal' removed from Constitution draft

The Convention's presidium has decided to remove the word "federal" from the EU Constitution draft, after fears that EU member states' powers were seen to be slowly drifting to Brussels.

A compromise appears to have been struck between the Convention chair Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the UK Premier Tony Blair, the Financial Times reports today.

However, the move seems to be largely symbolic and does not compromise the draft constitution, in its present form. For the f-word to be ...