The architect of the draft Constitution on Europe, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, has delivered a sombre message on the on-going talks on the treaty blueprint.
Speaking in Brussels on Friday (4 December) at a reconvening of the MEPs and MPs who drew up the draft Constitution, Mr Giscard said " ... we would have rather no constitution than a bad constitution; than a mutilated Constitution".
He called on MEPs and MPs to make their protests calmly - " with equanimity but with some force"...
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